Fleeting glimpse of humanity.

Tonight while I was walking there was a pigeon flopping on the ground and I was sad and somewhat sickened. I watched from across the intersection as a man nudged it with his boot away from the street. After a moment he picked it up and held it while it calmed down and he placed it in the warm spot underneath his coat and waited at the corner,illuminated by the street lights. The bird safe and warm eventually died and I watched the pair of them, and it was amazing. The guy held it under his coat and just stood there trying to make the poor creature feel okay in the last moments it had on this street corner.