Humanity

A warrior species,

our mortal enemy is ourselves;

denying others

what we for ourselves demand.

We seize our captives,

strip them of their rights

their humanity

and sentence them to a slow death

by cubicle and crippling debt,

by maximizing profit

above their ability to pay,

slowly starving them in body and spirit

until all that remains are docile drones

hollow human husks.