The abhorrence

The abhorrence is in us
for everything drastically unlike 
what we know is safe
to touch,
and further know.

Some things 
are monstrous and alien. Well, 
who makes them so? 

It's in us, our experience
- and how far they fall
outside of it.

That isn't to say
that if only we knew them, 
they'd cuddly coo in
and love us 
to bits 

They might tear us to bits, 
or infect us to death! 
We don't know them 
that well, 

so perhaps
the abhorrence 
is for the best