Tuesday 29 May 2007

Writing competition- Family

-Only humans can do conscious good...

...Only humans can do conscious evil.



I watch you play

You seem like a happy family

But I know deep inside

Any of you would kill the others

Simply to survive.


Haven't you ever seen

The weaker chick

Thrown from a height of five hundred feet?

Or watched the tiny otter starve to death?

These things are commonplace.

Only the human

The weak, puny human

Whose world dominance is undisputed

Regards the family as a haven.


Be it emotional, physical, grammatical,

The family upholds.


Mostly.


Because haven't you seen

The weaker child

Thrown against the wall

Or watched the drunken parent hit their son?



Seems a little unpolished/ abrupt, doesn't it? I'll see what I can do.

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