Colin F. Jones

IS IT THY SPEAR?

Is it thy spear that trains thy child
or the school you send him too?
Should not he view a corpse defiled,
know the meat that makes his stew?
Or should we shelter him from rain,
and hide him from the snow
that of another’s desperate pain
he may never know?
Of all the creatures that we kill,
not one the child doth hate,
yet he will stuff himself at will,
with all that’s on his plate;
and we do hide this truth until,
the man finds out too late