We feel love and loss,

Rejection and failure,

Happiness and woe,

Misery and contempt,

Hatred and malice,

Melancholy, and envy.

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These emotions have lead to war,

To plague and famine,

To ******, and deceit,

To a web of lies,

Told and despised,

To marriage, to faith,

To all things irate,

Our minds feel these emotions,

These cataclysmic commotions,

And we pretend we are sentient,

And in minds full of our regret,

We cause war, we cause peace,

Indecisive and creased.

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We spend our time in constant moderation,

Except the crazy few in our nations,

That stand firm in their belief,

That hold not arrows, but olive leaf,

And still there are massacres,

And human made disasters.

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The calamity of our cursed humanity,

The fact that we feel these emotions,

As the beasts that have no mind stare

Wide-eyed and dumbfounded.

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The separation of Man and Beast,

Is the strain of putrid disease,

That we seem among us to carry,

The fact that the animal kingdom is wary,

It should show that we are bereaved,

Of every point that should be grieved.

Of every sight that should be seen,

Of everything that should have been.