If...When...Who

If nature's inventive curiosity
created humankind with a bounty
of gifts such as free will and the
capacity to reason, balanced by
pathogens afflicting the soul and
the mind affixed to the passion for
survival, who will judge the final
analysis of failure or success
and by what criteria? Will
Survival of the Fittest be the
determining characteristic by 
which humankind distinguishes
itself, in the rejection of moderation
leading inevitably and invariably
to never-ending conflicts, grasping
jealousy of territorial advantage?
Nature, stepping in from time to
time to advance the narrative from
uncertainty to finality, throws in
the scourges of disease, drought
firestorms and hurricanes, leavened
with earthquakes and volcanic
action, a drama transfixing rapt
attention, whereupon the wagers begin.
Are we entitled to wonder with
whom her entertainment is shared?