It was shocking to me when I realized I could have empathy
For the flies that get caught in my overhead lamp
And die from lack of air.
The mere fact that I could put myself in their shoes
And imagine myself standing on a scorching hot glass surface,
A relatively giant bulb radiating a hellishly bright light above me,
Surrounding me the countless dead bodies of my cousins,
All who came there because instinct told them there would be food--
Absolutely shattered my own beliefs on the limitations of my mind
And actually, for a moment, made me sympathize with an insect.
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