Slumbering toes wiggling to life
Snails gather their lunch pales
Elephants scurry about to feed on the drought
A raccoon filled with self-doubt pops his pills to chill
As the rich chinchilla rests in her villa
The ants strain under the weight of keeping society afloat
The badger’s claw always at their throat
A crow takes note of all as it caws for the fall
The craven raven judges harsh those it deems misbehaving
As it does the same in the privacy of its nest
Striking at those it deems unblessed
The hippopotamus’s hypocrisy is plain to see for you and me
But the jackals cackle because they know they’ve backed him to the hilt
Because the house of cards is fragile
So they bluff and keep us down with peanuts in our guts
And blinders on our minds
But the mantis whispers in our ear
“You see, it is all clear.
The end is near.
The new beginning has not begun.
You must extinguish the sun.
And survive the night,
For a new world to take flight.
The caterpillar must die
For the moth to fly”
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