In Nature's House

While it was once, in the mists
of time long gone their habitat
too, they had chosen to surrender
the ineffability of free will
and perilous autonomy to the
assumed security of a predestined
social-animal link impressed
upon them by a higher order
of hubristic entitlements eager
to exploit their feral resources
and manipulate them to their
own purpose. Those surroundings
once so natural to them, now
appeal as temporary playgrounds
for they are nurtured elsewhere
their survival imperative no
matter of pride in self-sufficiency
lost, but a casual practical 
fait accompli distant ancestors
succumbed to. Leaving their wild
cousins to view them as pitiful
appendages of inferior creatures.