Fear the Victim

Nature red in tooth and claw

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Blood runs down in rivers

Magnificent beast brought so low

The crimson seeps from the bullet wound.

Disproportionate response

A shark would call it man

Fear the monster in the dark

Yet fear not the monster inside?

Man’s inhumanity, the dichotomous war

Destroyer, despoiler, protagonist

But fear nature red in tooth and claw.