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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551304" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elegy for a Spider (by a chronic arachnophobic)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There you sat<br>guarding the door<br>of the space<br>I think of as my room.<br>You are exotic <br>and foreign to my senses; <br>I have never seen <br>one such as you.<br>I should respect <br>and treasure you<br>for the unique creation you are.<br>You move like the wind<br>on your two cubed legs.<br>You make silken thread<br>strong enough to catch others.<br>You produce a chemical <br>lethal to those you choose<br>to infect it with.<br>But you only kill<br>when you must.<br>You eat your victims, <br>their death serves a purpose –<br>such a noble creature.<br>I’m frightened out of my “wits”, <br>so frightened that I find someone<br>else to get rid of you.<br>They spray you<br>with synthetic poison –<br>yet, you do not die.<br>They swat at you<br>with machine-made objects –<br>yet, you do not die.<br>Then one unfortunate blow<br>flattens you, brave warrior.<br>Your coffin – toilet paper.<br>Your final resting place – the dustbin.<br>You, superior hunter, have died<br>an unworthy death, <br>because I am frightened of you, <br>and in doing so, I prove myself<br>less advanced than I would like to think.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish to beg your forgiveness, <br>but your species has no need for it.<br>Only humans have need of guilt, <br>repentance, forgiveness, redemption<br>for we are the only species that sins.<br>Still, I wish you could forgive me<br>for this grave evil.<br>I wish you could relieve<br>the burden of my heavy conscience, <br>but I think it is there to weigh<br>my hand down to my side<br>when I see another creature<br>more noble than I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even though you might have had<br>the ability to harm me, <br>you lifted not one of your eight legs<br>to approach me.<br>Yet a human uses both its hands, <br>arms and even legs<br>to kill you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to think we’re ignorant enough<br>to call ourselves the most evolved of all life forms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Kriel">Alice Kriel</a><div class=q>
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guarding the door
of the space
I think of as my room.
You are exotic 
and foreign to my senses; 
I have never seen 
one such as you.
I should respect 
and treasure you
for the unique creation you are.
You move like the wind
on your t..."></div>
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