Man The Latent Predator Poem by Francis Duggan

Humans were always predators and though that gene we now suppress
It still remains in all of us in our drive for success
And though modern man no longer is compelled to kill to eat
The most of us still predators as the most of us eat meat.

For man's inhumanity to man for words I'm at a loss
We even nailed the son of God on Calvary to a cross
And man has been killing his own kind before men to lions were fed
Or before Herod's men presented Herod's daughter with John the Baptist's head.

The predator gene though suppressed in all of us alive
Centuries ago in pre historic times humans used it to survive
The leopard never changes his spots and he's a beast of prey
And man the latent predator will always be that way.