Intelligent Design It Whoever it was on the committee Takes the cake For coming up with such a curious scheme Wherein every living thing Bar none Can only thrive by Trapping, swallowing or absorbing, Squashing, smothering, devouring, Penetrating, poisoning, debilitating, Macerating, decimating and, in short, Exterminating something else Big or small Few or many Vegetable, viral or bacterial Cellular, subcellular or Human, dare I say Maybe it would tell me Some quiet Saturday evening Over a glass of wine At a seaside café As a warm breeze blows Why, when two of us, Joined in benevolence Why, if one looks carefully enough, We can’t stop duelling Cheek to cheek Despite the trails of carnage in our wakes Or is that just another facet of Intelligent design? ________________________________________________________________________ Emanuel E. García, Leaf Thoughts, One Hundred Poems, 2013 |