{"id":5366,"date":"2024-03-06T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2024-03-06T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:03:52","slug":"poem-a-confession-for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/06\/poem-a-confession-for-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: A Confession — For the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t have a lot of regrets in life. Still, one of the stupidest and cruelest things I ever did was as a kid when I shot dead with a BB gun a bunch of birds hanging out in a tree in my yard. I am not sure when regret set in, but this memory today serves as a reminder of all the unnecessary death inflicted on fellow beings. May we have the courage to be kind in all situations. May we not be chicken, even when that inescapable law of life and death — you are what you eat — leaves us, killing for no purpose but sport.<\/p>\n

A Confession: For the Birds<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

12 year old boy
\nAim true
\nBut not today
\n17 birds
\nFall to the ground
\nWithout a man\u2019s remembrance
\nOnly fated regret
\nOf cruelty
\nFor the birds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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