Bad Images

(Picture Credit - Vietnamn execution by openthemagazine com)

It’s just after 5AM but I am up,

Compelled to write and share with you

Bad images

From video and TV.

I gave you a newborn calf being killed by a lion or something.

But there are countless more.

Young seals being swallowed by killer whales.

A young queen bee stabbing its rivals to death before or after they hatch.

An unlucky wildebeest is pushed by a panicked herd

Back into the river

And into the jaws of a crocodile.

Survival of the fittest

Or luckiest.

Animals running about some abattoirs

Trying to escape death.

Fighting for their lives.

Watching their siblings die.

Enter Man.

A groggy man has survived being shot by a firing squad

So a soldier walks up to him

Puts a pistol to his head and fires

So the man falls

Fountains of blood pumping up from his head

To Beatles music.

Rows of orange shirted men kneeling

A hooded man behind each one

With sword ready at the throat…

So many horrors.

No fiction.

I wonder what God thinks….

Paul Butters