of old who exposed
our roots to lay bare core
human D N A
that may easily portray
nauseous, vile behaviors.
Hominid power
in the earliest hours
of evolution
of humans rests best in strong
male prowess, but, then there was
the female power
to birth the Earth with new life
impossible for
males to rival for human
survival to become us.
[Shey]
Therefore, you see, we
are hard wired, authored by
our D N A,
to live off life we consume.
We still must compete to eat.
Predator and prey
frays are overt and subtle
and quite pervasive
to exert massive pressure
to gain and assert power,
both personally
and collectively throughout
all society.
Hence the need for me to grow
my personal power used
to defuse misused
power by shady others.
Hunger and sex are
simple enough drives that can’t
be denied nor ignored with
effects that may cause
reactions complex and grim
from troublesome to
villainous to harm the heart
or a limb if jealousy
or narcissism
enters the play for mating
to become more of
the predatory-prey-fray
to dominate and end choice.
What complicates fates
are experience and age
that sets the stage for
learning to cope with the scope
of adulthood’s diverse acts.
Wet dreams, I perceive
to be one of Nature’s schemes
that’s essentially
paired vitally to female
mensural cycle onset.
Young children must be
protected and fair statesmen
elected; laws passed.
[Jill]
I know Shey. She’s passionate
when she augments the first phase
of Justice to start
to incarcerate, fine, or
set detainees free.
She fights crime with a vengeance
as she begins the sequence
to investigate
incorrect acts that smack of
willful ignorance
that threatens social balance
between education and
naïveté to
fray delicate harmony
guiding our young
to become their best placement
in the chorus to advance
levels beyond sounds
that astound the ears with noise —
unbounded chaos.
[Collin]
But Justice is not revenge
and revenge is not vengeance.
While both depict
strong emotions, courts of law
balk at revenge quests.
Our legal system rests
on the principle that it’s
best to resolve blood
feuds with fair reparation
to defuse further
blood loss as compensation
for injurious acts that
ransack citizens’
attempt to live peacefully.
Laws aren’t scrawled but penned
deliberately with more
forethought brought to bare upon
governance’s quest
to contend with vendettas
or usurpations
of each individual’s
right to life and liberty
and to be able
to speak freely, openly
their thoughts, appraisals
and discontent of dismal
acts from narcissism’s fat
self-absorbed egos
engorged with abysmal self
importance. Thus laws
fall more under protection
as the core chore to prevent
more harm to the peace
that is the essential charm
found in harmony.
[Shey]
“Get even” is the heart of
revenge with a tinge, “Plus one,”
that hinges on strong
levels of resolve to win.
Getting even is
intrinsically very
personal whereas Collin
rightly stresses that
laws defend social order
that’s not personal
but cultural and global.
Defense on the street is raw
emotion with much
commotion unfettered by
courtroom procedures
that features strict rules enforced
by the gavel and bailiffs
that lifts disorder
out of the brutality
of might-makes-right frays
of predator/prey vengeance.
My resolve feeds my vengeance
in increments that
must surpass and outlast that
of the predator’s
bold, brash disdain to restrain
the self from aggressive acts
to extract any
and every desired
person, place or thing.