Every day,
High in the sky,
The crow is on patrol.
When he's not on one of his perches,
He takes to the air with the greatest care.
It is for goodness that he searches.
He says,
Humans are quite interesting to me.
There's a lot of dislike and hatred out there.
Intentional or not,
They simply don't seem to care.
The crow flaps his wings and makes a descent.
Atop a lonely building,
He sits,
And what he finds next makes him lose his wits.
A couple fights violently in a parking lot because one of them took the other's spot.
Another takes money from a donation can owned by a sleeping homeless man.
The couple now exchanges stares without saying a word.
The crow thinks,
And humans call each other,
Dumb as a bird.
In disgust,
The crow lowers his head.
I'm too old to be tracking this dread.
I should be doing something else instead.
A car pulling in opens the crow's eyes to give him his greatest surprise.
A pair of loving and cheerful blue eyes.
A schoolgirl exits the passenger door and makes haste.
For her mother's time,
She must not waste.
She tiptoes to where the homeless man sleeps,
Five dollars in her hand.
Carefully,
She squats down and puts the money in his can.
She returns to the car to start her day.
To her,
What she did was only mingled love and play.
The bickering couple are now frozen in place.
Now trivial is that parking space.
They too approach the can and leave several bills for the sleeping man.
The crow senses a warm inner glow.
Goodness,
He does finally know.
Yet he knows there's a final seed to sow.
With might,
The large crow flaps his wings,
And off the building top he springs.
The crow lets out an ear-splitting caw just above the sleeping man.
Abruptly and rudely awakened,
He scrambles for that can.
The crow says,
That's normally no way to treat a friend,
But I didn't want people taking your money again.
Blessed be.
