Terry D. Sutherland

NATURAL SELECTION

Tradition binds the tethered mind
To want and hate and outrageous pride
Carrying the small and meek to find
A dowered and ostentatious bride

The profane marriage of mutual need
Combined for single purpose made
A paradox of good, for lust and greed
An anomaly of nature’s lower grade

Any offspring would be most unkind
A monstrous combination made to be
Assembled by a committee mute and blind
No hands to grasp and no eyes to see

Born a serpent with two heads
With double tongues forked and sharp
The abhorrent cost of two who bed
Having never heard an angel’s harp