The Need
What do
pitbulls,
lions,
and humans
all have in common?
Our ability to
kill.
Pitbulls kill when we,
humans,
force them to.
Sweet animals labeled as
dangerous brutes,
because of us.
Lions kill out of
intinct,
survival,
need.
They kill to live until we,
humans,
cage their wild manes
and wild hearts.
Then, that instinct is
thrown to the wind.
But what is
the human's excuse?
We kill for
pleasure,
anger,
hate,
and need.
But our
need
is different
than that of a lion's or a pitbull's.
Both animals kill because they
need
to survive.
Us?
We kill because the
need
to defeat the competition,
enemy, or our own evils
is too great to destroy
any other way.
We contol everything else
in this world, when really,
we
need
to control
ourselves.
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