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Of scavengers and Carrion

Our species will carry on

With life comes death

We climb mountains of bone

After the lions have had their fill

Scavengers from near and far surround the kill

The shriek of the vulture, the cry of the heron

Hyenas rip apart the flesh of a Carrion

A battle of the lowlies surely ensues

On a field of bloody tissue and ripped sinews

Birds vomit guts into the mouths of their young

The blood of a herbivore on a carnivore's tongue

And the Scavengers are all scavenged as well

Until nothing is left but bones and tail

A ribcage that once contained the heart

Of a peaceful creature torn apart

Sharks swallow flesh of a rotted carcass

Of a blue whale that succumbed to the darkness

Shreds of meat fertilize the sea

To feed plankton and anemones

Of scavengers and Carrion

Our species will carry on

With life comes death

We climb mountains of bone

Guts strewn all across the ground

It's a flesh mess that the scavengers found

The biggest beast, a carcass hoarder

Get in line, know the pecking order

Wolves surround the fallen body of a bovine

A possum in the road feasting on his own kind

Listen to the teeth sinking in, the bone grind

Cracked skull, stomach full from a blown mind

Bacteria on the teeth of Komodos

Creatures on the creep, better eat your No-Doze

Bodies never last on the jungle floor

Expired tiger's kill, time to feed some more

People stabbing the backs of their brothers

Opened up and consumed, smothered and covered

Human beings are scavengers too

Savage and ravaged, throw them all in a zoo

Of scavengers and Carrion

Our species will carry on

With life comes death

We climb mountains of bone