even animals with subsistence tastes kill to survive,
and form hierarchies which then creates the need for territories
in which the most powerful among them strive
to out-live weaker examples of the species.
Do animals dream of what they have to kill, to survive?
In their dreams do they give an afterlife
to what they have recently eaten for their meal?
Humans dream, for the life they hoped for
but leave un-lived and think nothing of what has died for them
to so supinely in comfort.
Our knowledge takes us so far away
from understanding subsistence
that it makes our learning a measure of our ignorance.
If we knew the unit of measure of waiting to live,
and set that against the worth of regret would we,
in subsistence, live more and dream less?
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