Surrealism: Doomed Predator

Painting and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor

Surrealism: Doomed Predator, in acrylic AVR 2011

Surreal - but who would know -

      the inmate or a child?

who have not known pain enough,

     who shrunk from chide?

Surreal is Goya's giant, and Jaws,  

     the lions of Hemingway;

one life taking another for survival

     predator over its prey.

Surreal is a towering palm or tree,  

     killer by allelopathy; 

under its crown no sapling lives,

     including its progeny.

Surreal haunts millions in poverty,   

     clinging to life as they pray;

prey of those living the Good Life, 

     themselves too, are prey.~