Painted Animal





Forever portrayed as bestial
a creature of fabric
of no more than instinct
driven by the predators instinctual
a reflex for survival
and so we are this painted animal

All morality for some gangster curse
alpha above each other
educated in the doctrines of humanities warmonger
we, to be the worst resort
the scrabbling rats
who chew and gnaw at the meaning of life

Ever depicted in this caricature
toward destruction is in our nature
this self hate a brushstroke
to our obscurity
in a desperate search
for loves reality
but the painted animals do not love
they merely perpetuate the species

And through histories translation
by politics and religion
have degraded the human
this painted animal of violent intention
the pretense of its rebellion
a damp squib
as time would tell

Although we struggle to recognize the lie
still the truth of ourselves eludes
and amidst this rhetoric of deliberate confusion
humanity has no conception of
what it means to be a human-being
only knowing what it means to be less than human

" The world is full of misery and conflict, destructive brutality, aggression. Man has mastered the external world but inwardly he is still violent, acquisitive, competitive. Society has been built along these lines. The crisis in the world is actually a crisis in consciousness. It is important to bring about a revolution in the human mind ". Jiddu Krishnamurti. January 1, 1966

The human never exalted
for the miracle of Gods creation
but demeaned and painted
derided as being nothing more than just an animal
and to this end lay waste upon its love
for only the mean and bitter
is its taste of life








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Submitted by cmwilliams on November 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXAAA XCCXXD CCBEXEFX GGGGGXX XXGFXG E HGHAFCD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,638
Words 297
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 8, 7, 6, 1, 7

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