There are some regions of the world that
remain mired in the elemental primordial
laws of survival; the thin veneer of civility
often abraded and torn away in the passion
of tribal rivalry and vestigial stirrings of ancient
enmities. So it is in Africa which remains
a dark continent of violence in competition
for resources still viewed as scarce setting
tribe and clan against one another to create
victor and victim, a widespread condition of
inhumanity common to south Asia and the
Middle East where restive tribal and vile
sectarian animosity of ancient origin seethes
and simmers sending nations into paroxysms
of rage mounting conflict after conflict where
the guilty and the innocent alike become
sacrifices to enmity and the passion of greed
the lure of possessing that held by others
when destroying what is coveted becomes
the solution that no side celebrates conquest.
The raw law of survival turned on its head in
a mass psychosis of mortal extermination.
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