Sakhile Moleshe A Cry for Mercy (2018)
You’ll find it in scripture, in courtrooms, in politics, in everyday life. Christianity calls it blessed. Islam opens almost every verse with it. Judaism speaks of chesed. Buddhism, of compassion. Different names, same idea: holding back when you could strike.
The Roman Stoic Seneca called it clemency. In his essay to Nero, he made the case for mercy as a strength, not a softness. A ruler, he said, should show mercy not because someone deserves it, but because it’s the wiser thing to do. It’s about seeing yourself in the other—right when it would be easier not to.
Thousands of years later, we’re still figuring out how to show mercy.
So, today, we listen to “A Cry for Mercy” by Sakhile Moleshe. Once the frontman of South Africa’s electro-jazz group Goldfish, he’s now making raw, emotional, genre-blurring R’n’B. This track came out in 2018. Still hits.
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