자비/mercy

연보라색 나비가 마비된다
자비의 순간이 언제 올거야?

a lilac butterfly becomes paralyzed
when will mercy’s moment come?

 

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In Korean the words for butterfly, mercy, and paralysis rhyme.  I wrote this short poem to serve as a memorization aid for those three words.

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