Words from Inside My Head

You found the tattered bird’s tenacity

so amazing and uplifting

you could not resist

reaching out a hand

to offer unannounced

and unexpected

a tender scrap

of your admiration.

The startled thing reacted

by shrieking back at you,

then flying away

and landing on a

nearby branch where it kept

on screeching until you

backed away,

feeling ambushed and assailed.

Which was,

if any, 

the one

most

wronged?