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Gene Pool

Gene Pool How can we look at a child and kill it, by using “it” we have distance us from the child they are no longer unique, but just an expendable extension of us. The intense love we have for a lost child is the grief of our own demise…it is the only proof we ever lived the loss of a gene, inconceivable future transgression. A child killed in a drone attack in Pakistan stir us less than the sight of a bunny rabbit run over; how sad it had to die, but it crossed the road. A naked Jewish boy in front of a mass grave, his cap hiding his modesty, I condemn all mankind for his demise, he is our cruel gene based viciousness, the survival of the genus and for it to survive there is no room for compassion. A man who kills children weather by drone or gun kills himself and forever he shall walk in nights shadow.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 12/27/2012 7:45:00 AM
Dear Jan Could the genes of the heartless be known at conception, what would we do? They would be children too. Your poem is devastating and goes on and on. love, Kathy
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