We delight in ourselves
Civilized and societal
Cooperating to thrive
To be a better organism
But an animal breathes
Only skin deep pigments
Bring ease of identity
Familiar and learned
Perceptions of survival
Experience and observed
Make us what we are
A hide of the animal
As trained times come
The animal bears its teeth
When cornered in fear
It lashes out unguarded
So discrimination thought
Criminal intentions threat
Bear no chromatic justice
On a threatened animal
When emotions overtake
Reason's logic mitigating
Men fall upon all fours
In predation animalistic