Criminal Buttons

BUTTONS
No swords 
No spears
No shields
No arrows 
No horses

ONLY BUTTONS
Risk-free, time saving wars
Mass killing weapons.
Just press the button.

Out of your finger tips;
Wrapped in a deadly
bullet,
bomb 
or
missile
Death miles away travels
Before it
Indiscriminately hits
Men, 
Women,
and 
cherubs
Killing every living creature

PRESS THE BUTTON
Blood Rivers will stream along beaten roads
Sweeping every trace of every refinement
Painting every city wall purple red.

HAVE A SPREE
PRESS THE BUTTON

Death slowly floats down
Mingles with the air they inspire
Before it tickles their defenceless lungs
With lethal poison
Heaping the streets with lifeless corpses
But generously
Preserving buildings for victims’ heirs.

HAVE NO FEAR.
PRESS THE BUTTON.

You will never see the horrors of your act.
You will never see your victims ’eyes.
Your victims would never know their slaughterer.
No swords
No spears 
No shields
No arrows 
No horses
BUTTONS ONLY.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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A  Avatar
January 5, 2016 at 1:05 PM
i like this very much
M V Avatar
November 7, 2010 at 2:00 AM
buttons of destruction.powerful presentation.
Culverhouse Avatar
November 6, 2010 at 3:02 PM
scary!!! stuff!
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