Leave Me in My Cave

They spent a quarter of a million dollars to save a patient
They spent twenty-five cents to kill a healthy human
They debate vigorously to safe a foetus
They spend donkey’s years arguing on:
“It's my body”
"It's my choice”
"It's a life”
‘’It's not a life yet”
“It’s murder”
“It’s not murder; it reduces hardship and trauma”
But they spend only a second to snuff the life out of full-grown able-bodied species
They spent millions of dollars to put one man down six feet and cried a river
But mass graves for casualties of wars cost no dime, no tears
Billions of dollars spent on tanks to destroy a billion dollar infrastructures
And they say they are civilised
They say they practise democracy
They say they protect the world
They say they protect flora and fauna

Beasts! Beasts!! Beasts!!!

Let me live in my cave, naked and ignorant
At least I know that the opposite of new clear is old unclear
Don't come with your education
Don't come with your Bible
Don't come with your Quran
Don't preach to me the boundless love and kindness your Buddha radiates
Don’t talk about Karma
Don’t tell me about the intelligence of Einstein
Don’t tell me about the wisdom of Solomon
Don’t tell me about forward-looking Musk

My cave life is the love that eludes you
It's the civilisation you claim but lack.

-Sam Adegbembo