I Know a Man

the NRA's creed goes like this "guns don't kill people, people do", true enough but you forgot the word intent in your analysis as you sanctify the second amendment right to bear arms i know a man who says words don't hurt people, their reactions do, true enough though i know enough to know a man's intent to hurt and that makes all the difference in the world you can feel it like a black cloud gathering to take your breath away and you walk by innocently enough and get shot down one way or another there is blood on the sidewalk and blood oozing from the heart that didn't have a choice to walk on by without your interruption ringing in my eyes, your words are your bullets finding their fast and furious mark i am unarmed and spent, my life was in your hands, and i don't even know why no words are ever stopped with bullets of intent, precision marksman that you are, the world is at war with words that say I am! and you have no rights of existence it's Sunday morning and the clouds are a white flag in the surrendering sky all things must pass.