Unlike Us Other Creatures

Unlike us other creatures do not have a sense of guilt or shame
Innocence for this may seem an apt name
And though like us they are born to die eventually
They do not have a sense of mortality

Us humans lose our innocence at a young age
Many years before we reach the adult stage
But other life forms with their innocence die
On saying in some ways they are superior to us would not be a lie

On science, maths, chemistry, engineering and technology we may have come far
But we are not as great as many of us think that we are
In our greed for things material the Earth that does feed us we try to destroy
And this should not be a cause for celebration or joy

Unlike us to survive other creatures smaller creatures must kill
And they only weed out the frail and the ill
To them we may feel superior but we are not superior to them in every way
They are more Earth friendly than most of us are in truth one can say.