Oh! God in Heaven!

Thou hast set my eyes in front of my face

so my vision is forward

toward the doomed body of my prey!

Thank you Father!

For Thou hast created me a predator in my genes!

A good one!

For now I see I have no enemy among

the other creatures of the earth,

whom Thou hast also created for our use!

My only danger now comes from my fellow predators

on whom I am doing a blessed job

of holding at bay…

or slaughtering!

Praise to You, my King!

Right at this moment, for instance,

there are 4 wars around the globe

and 2 or 3 random hot spots

(all with nuclear proclivities)

ready to boil over,

each adversary garnering support from allies and neighbor,

Praise!

But, lately, a new and powerful predator has arisen!

Oh! My Lord, protect us!

Our very Home! This planet so misnamed Earth,

recognized millennia ago as a shrinking land

to be used, bent to our own needs, exploited!

is only, just recently (in geologic time)

coming to the end of Her rope

concerning a small family of Her feisty occupants,

Us!

And She is now busily printing eviction notices to all of us in the form of fire, famine, flood, plagues, pollution, plastic ocean water,

the occasional hurricane, tornado

and microscopic squiggles in our veins and arteries,

ALL thrown for spice into the bubbling, global, climatically, climatologically overheated gumbo

of which we are not to be partakers,

but rather ingredients!

The whole volcanic orb floating in a cosmic vacuum

lusting to absorb our remains!!!

Oh! My Lord!

So…

Perhaps, if it is not too late already,

I pray we see that it might behove us now

to quench those little familial snits

on our human branch of THE GREAT TREE OF LIFE

and turn our collective attention to the fact

that our planet has changed from

the Edenic Paradise of Your creating

to the Satanic predator

against whom,

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

we haven’t got a fucking chance!!!

Unless we find a way to change our ways!!

Hallalahuah!

Amen.