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An Encounter With a Man Crying after Sunday Church

By 10 February 2018July 30th, 20262 Comments1 min read
A crying man sits on a stone wall, surrounded by children, as a Black woman offers him a 20-pound note, which he gently refuses

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A quiet poetic observation of compassion, dignity and unseen sorrow, capturing a brief encounter outside a church where kindness meets silent suffering.


she brushed her teeth
then rushed to church
& threw her twenty pounds in.

& creeping out before the end
she saw a blonde male,
his eyes cloudy blue,
sat on the jaded wall
crying.

local children clustered,
so she stopped and dipped
into her purse again.

he gently palmed away
the gesture.


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