Sunday, December 6, 2020

you can't help everyone

i see a bird
on the sill outside my
window.

he's looking in,
pecking his beak
against the pane.

he's
shivering.

he can't wrap his wings
tightly enough
around

around himself.
i want to

throw him out a blanket,
or a small thimble
of hot

cocoa, but he has no hands
to hold it.

you can't help everyone
in this life.

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