<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=482540" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Road Kill</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Caught in the glare of bright headlights, <br>a raccoon is struck and killed. For good <br>measure other cars come along and run <br>over the carcass, ‘til it’s wickedly flung to<br>the road shoulder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did the driver of the speeding car stop to<br>say a prayer for the dead creature? <br>Or did he just keep driving, not giving<br> the incident a second thought? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come morning a crow visits the oozing carcass.<br>She plucks out an eye and swallows it whole, <br>There’s no empathy or remorse for this grisly act.<br>Nothing more than a crow’s full stomach that<br>guarantees more full stomachs back at her nest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somewhere in the Middle East…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A young soldier presses a red button that launches <br>a deadly missile toward a distant target. Like the crow, <br>do you think he feels empathy or remorse for his road kill? <br>Is this act of violence nothing more than a human animal, <br>trained to obey and kill? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which of these acts of violence is the greater sin? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">ROTMS</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ray+Lucero">Ray Lucero</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=482540" data-title="Road Kill de Ray Lucero" data-description="Caught in the glare of bright headlights, a raccoon is struck and killed. For good measure other cars come along and run over the carcass, ‘til it’s wickedly flung to the road shoulder. Did the driver of the speeding car stop to say a pray..."></div> </div> </div>

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