The Hidden

A hawk wanders flying horizontal in the azure sky
over the nearby green hills, black eyes searching
we see it later my helper and I
near the market tearing apart a pigeon 
blood and feathers torn by the hawk
as it gorges it’s hungry belly 
sacrifice lives with life and death 
we do not often see its struggle 
life and death we rarely hear its cries
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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July 10, 2019 at 3:25 PM
So well expressed! I enjoyed the rawness of this piece.
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