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I Saw Her Flutter By.
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Gentle, colourful, silent and lovely
As beautiful as a sunset in Summer
She wafted among the weeds
Seeking breakfast.

I could have killed her.
Smashed her.
Four milliard years of Evolution
Smeared into mush and filth
With one movement.

They can murder millions from their chairs.
With their aeroplanes, missiles, pilots, generals
And policies.
They can eradicate entire cultures
Erase millennia of Histories,
With one ill-tempered yell of jealousy
At not getting one.

I have no right.

I have the power
Yet no right to take her tiny life.

Nor do they.

- J.



Too subtle for them?
J.
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