The Killers

The animal kills for survival and a person kills for a craving. There are crocodile killers. 

 

A killer storm, cancer a major killer, but killers no doubt

 

Most of these we can understand, but a person that kills for a craving.   

 

 

A desire, wish, yearning, longing, hunger, passion, an appetite, be careful who you love.

©2008  

 

 

Reviews

[R J Askew]

I wonder if I have it in me to kill, and if so who, what and how and more importantly why? Am presently reading a book about the battle of Stalingrad in WW2. A huge amount of killing. I cannot comprehend it, why men do it.

[Pax Analog]

This jagged rumination has the edge of truth.

The reason humans can kill pathologically, as distinct from the hunger cycle of animals, and the randomness of weather, is I believe, because we are chronically half-baked psychologically as a species. The instrumentality of the human nervous system is more profound than the historical acculturation of societal egoities. A cat doesn't have these issues. Humans have to work harder internally to achieve the equivalent integrity of a cat, that simpler biological form.

"Be careful who you love." Indeed. And WHAT you love as well.

Thanks for your poem, and keep workin' from your innate soul integrity, brother.