Predation

If believed in god
I would have to hate 'his' 'Intelligent Design':

“Eat and be eaten!”,
that’s the commandment,
obeyed by ‘his’ creatures:
the lion rips the throat of the zebra,
a pack of wolves tears a deer apart,
the fox devours the rabbit,
the cat ‘plays’ with the mouse,
praying mantis munches on butterflies,
Venus flytrap digests insects,
humans, on top of the food chain,
kill, use, torture them all,
including their own kind.

If you are a true believer
how can’t you see that
it would have been nothing
to your ‘omnipotent’ ‘father’
to base 'his' design of all of us
on photosynthesis?
Did ‘he’ like pain, fear, suffering?
Is it divine entertainment?
We did not deserve
to be condemned
to live on a planet
dominated by teeth and claws!

This ‘design’ is anything but intelligent:
wasteful, cruel, inefficient;
needlessly too complicated:
we don’t absorb sunlight
as plants do, turning photons to food,
we receive it indirectly
in a parasitic way,
by devouring each other!

No loving god designed us…
blind, evolving nature is our true mother!