MAN THE RABID BEAST

What beasts we, who so

brutally tear each other apart

- like no predator lacking

our sentience does?

We are driven by instincts

baser than those of our own survival,

we fight our kin to deny

the survival in flesh or seed of all.

Cruelty and malice are

the gifts intelligence has gifted us,

bitter gifts we use to shed

both blood and hope alike.

16.04.2020