Scared

Recently while writing a review for a fellow poet, I stumbled into some metaphoric thought in my experience thesaurus, that part of my consciousness that's hard at times to reflect on.

Scared
   by Odin Roark

Fear saved the fly
The spider wept

Fear kept men alive
While Napalm paved the way

Fear keeps the 1% insulated
Handlers and mental bodyguards
At their beckon call

The mongrel on Manhattan’s frozen streets
Knows well the virtue of fear

Yet

Never will we see our species
Handle being scared like an animal

Where the lesser evolution will defend
We the sentient superiors will think only offense

How beautiful
How heart wrenching0
The defense elephants
Rhinos
Big cats
Exert to protect only that
Which is their province
Their instinctual responsibility
Wanting not to harm the perp
But only to ward off the aggression
Escape to safer surroundings.

Why does man feel he must instigate aggression
To justify his superiority?
Why do we continue our behavior
Moving science
Technology
Mind set
Ever closer to android resolve?

Might we be so complacently satisfied
We ignore the advances of AI?
Are we really so consumed with the media clap trap
We’re becoming more and more ignorant of information
Vet proof stats that tell us
Wake up

And yet

To sit in a quiet attic
Observe the simple
Yet perfectly designed survival
Instinct of the spider
Is to become aware

It’s all about living in harmony
Not acrimony

Wait patient spider
What you need for another day of survival
Is but waiting

Love nature
Or perish