All animals by nature seek
A lair a shelter from threats to existence
Inclement climate and stronger predators
Ineluctably induce fearful creatures to hide,
Only wandering the lands when in need
Of nourishment and lovers to procreate allow
Species to endure on hostile grounds
Whilst creatively developing intuitions and skills,
Sheerly spurred to head and conquer
A new territory through loathed combat
Conflict condoned on premises of food scarcity
Hunger quelled by survival instincts.
Through ice ages, heat waves, millennia
Many extinctions a race called human
Distinguishes itself, learns to grow
Its own food ceases to roam tames fire
Carves tools hunts and cooks, draws in caves
Bearing witness to leave the legacy of its stories
To its heir for it never to forget its origins
Yet it does paradoxically as it evolves.
Confusing wants with necessities
Descendants enter wars, based on caprices
And ignorance, greed and fear leading hands
To commit crimes imbued with cruelty,
For mere prosperity of few to the detriment of many
Exotic valuable resources they do not eat but use
They do not buy but steal, enslaving the vanquished
To extract peculiar minerals metals and fuels
Manipulating energy and matter, nickel gold
Diamonds petroleum uranium, driving engines
Flaunting jewels, contriving weapons able to kill
More, while the “civilised” society is on the phone
Bragging to vanished Gods about achievements
Proud of its newfound potentials, warning
If it deems it can, drop a bomb of mass destruction
Get rid of made-up enemies, not humans but insurgents,
Blind to deities shaking their head in disapproval
Deaf to their sighs of sadness and dismay
Neglecting it is murdering its brothers and sisters
Whilst most probably signing its own
Absurd farcical death sentence.
[Featured painting: The Garden of Earthly Delights – Detail of Hell by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480 – 1490]