Both Beauty and Brutality
are necessary parts of Existence.

The Lion
can never be
a vegetarian.

The fresh green foliage of Spring
must always yield
to the Fall.

Such things have no choice
except to act
as they do.

We humans, however,
have the choice
to act as we will,

either adding to
or subtracting from
the parts of an equation,

whose balance
lies in our hands.