Jay Anderson-Taylor Poet I do not know?

Mercy For One?

Life can sometimes be bitter and yet nature is a way of life, I did learn this from  
my  Momma who would tell us, "Daddy never would bring home all the cats that 
he would sometimes find in abandon cars as he was working in the old junk 
yard...but only the one that he thought we would want to keep and besides he 
always said that we already had enough mouths to feed. This cat was special 
and it seemed to be the strongest out of the bunch that he had to chosen it from, 
he said that it had a grace and an inner strength that the rest just did not seem to 
share or have. The rest he would drown in an old trash bag, he said it was a 
more merciful end for them all...and that it would be a much better fate for them 
all too perish all at onetime, than for all too just freeze to death in the cold of that 
abyss, so God told me to spare just one." Truly grace smile upon this one and 
this my children is the harsh reality of life. Decide your children’s fate before you 
give birth, that you may not have to depend on the mercy of others that come 
upon your mistakes that you have made in your life.

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