Awaiting the body count

Brilliant execution
Orders followed
Self preservation
Far from battle

Cloistered warmly, safe
Divinely chosen to sit
In Bill's house on the hill
Awaiting the body count

Lives snuffed out
Two years ago
Did not go away
Now back to haunt

Karma is real; payback 
In other lives and places
Time's a continuum
Matter's indestructible
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