Bird of Prey
Every bird of prey
Will be eaten by a bigger predator
Or many many smaller ones
Do we in truth live on
In the bellies of our enemies
If we are forever dieing
Then death where is thy sting
Our enemies may kill us
But the resentment in their bellies never dies
Never mind how horribly we die
Their hatred is never sated
Till perhaps they open their hearts to compassion
But then they must die our death over and over
In that inescapable prison cell
The multiverse
Some shake their head a little at my 'wishful thinking'.
Ha! I haven't been naive more than a few times
A year or two here and their
My sexual morality lies not in a heavenly purity
But in an intimate understanding
Of the nature of suffering
Ye who hate me
You will die
Not by my hand
But by that of nature
You will suffer much before that
Likely you will die horribly
Possibly over and over again
I tell ye now
Seize your chance to love
And live free from anger
For ye shall never win
Nature makes fools of us all
Perhaps over and over again
Naive?
Nay. The torture never stops
Seems the realist position
From where I stand
I am not a fantasist
Just because ye are too naive to understand
You don't want to see what these eyes of seen
But in all likelyhood you will
Just sit and breathe while you can
Oxygen and food and friendship are all quite a thrill
Povey 2013