Spiders- Elise.

Spiders.

Big protruding legs.

Fuzzy limbs being dragged against the surface it crawls on.

The species that produces babies by the thousands.

Thousands of small insects ready to make their markings and spread their web.

Spiders will always be killed no matter where you are.

The unsettling legs, big beady eyes, the feel on their bodies dragging against unconscious skin.

Who would want that?

They create a fight or flight aspect in humans while guns and violence is normalized.

How is it that in this society bugs are the fear when everything around us should be a fear?

Is it because it’s our own fault?

We caused all the main issues so is that why we aren’t scared?

We know the extent to our harm.

Is it something so simple as just knowing we are bad?

Spiders don’t stand on good or bad so is the anonymity of their ability what scares us?

We know the horrors of life yet we still reproduce. 

We still force women into giving birth.

We bring these lives into the world with no second thought if we can even withstand them to live.

Women being forced into giving despite the circumstances is far scarier than what spiders can do.

Spiders do the same thing as humanity.

Just spiders know they’ll die.

They produce rapidly despite knowing they’ll be killed by humanity.

Not only that but they spread diseases like humans.

Truly they are quite like humanity yet they scare us.

Maybe seeing spiders brings a sense of fear to us because they act as a mirror.

We might not have 8 legs but we are far worse.

Spiders do this stuff to live.

What do we do it for?

What do we fight for?

What do we attack for?

We aren’t fighting for the right things if women aren’t free to do as they please with their body while spiders can.

The thing we fear the most is what’s the most healthy in this world.

They show us how fucked the worlds become. 

We’ve ruined their home and all they try to do is make do with these circumstances and we kill what we don’t know about.

We bury what’s unknown.

Spiders.

Soft loving creatures that carry hopes and dreams like humans.

Gentle eyes just watching the world change around them.

All they want to do is live.