Little Girls And Monsters.

This was written many years ago. But, it highlights the duality of modern societies, in which we bring children into the world as innocents, and allow evil in the world to corrupt and destroy. Will we ever be able to remove the evil, or are we doomed as a species? Or, are we part of a grand design that is intended to test us? Will we become the evil, or will we struggle mightily against it? What kind of person will you be? You get to choose.

He watched a spell-bound little girl,

magically transported

by a purple dinosaur.

It preached love and caring

on the TV screen.

He wondered how she would discover

that the world didn’t always work that way.

He wondered whether the extinct creature

knew the irony it represented.

Ancient creatures

and modern little girls

were the commonality of his life.

The span of the centuries

had not cured him.

Women surrounded him,

tore at the epidermal layers of his being,

caressed his insecurity,

and challenged his ability to live his life,

loving.

He was a Neanderthal,

struggling to survive,

armed with a stick,

traveling through deadly marsh gas

of ancient age,

fearing the monstrous anger

of an unthinking beast.

Could he escape his past?