Us

Buddhism says

anger

is holding a hot coal

that you intend to throw

and in your ignorance

burning your own hand.

Infinitely, we die

Christianity says

love

thy neighbour

forgive and forget.

The end,

is nigh

Someone said

God

loves a tryer

and God knows

I fucking try

People say

Survival of the fittest

like that’s some fucking

excuse

for letting things die

We are the fittest

We hold all the cards

We can choose but,

Instead, we just get by

I hate-

I hate unjust, violent death.

To see it happen to a living being,

to see the horror in its eyes

to be powerless to stop it

yet having the power to prevent it

and failing

(assuming we even tried)

We have all the power

and we abuse it

ignore it

and take it for granted

-Why?

We’re

foul

greedy

ignorant

blasé bastards,

all of us.

For numbers,

we vie.

People say

we have, now,

so much

Look, a hospital

and here, a school

people have jobs,

and usually, food

We achieve one thing,

ten things,

a hundred things,

out of a potential

million

and we say its enough.

No, worse than that

we congratulate ourselves

we applaud

our mediocrity

We cheer

as we fail

and call it success.

I hate-