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What Makes Man Not An Animal?
What makes man not an animal?
His sense of future I say
What gives man all of his courage?
forseeing his dying day
What makes one man good and another bad?
Its all subjective and unclear....
What gives life to the living
and death sometimes to that I hold dear....
I gave a friend a burial
just this week last
He wasnt a human friend
A cat, none the less
He had no sense of the future
and little of the past...
For him life was for living
Even though it went by him quite fast.
I miss my friend the cat.
What makes man not an animal? For Fuzzy Bear (C) Susan Manley 1985
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