Rights To Kill

Who has the godlike hand to judge
Who has the right to cast the first stone
Who may stare at me and say ... you die?
Pull the trigger 
You think your hurting me?
Your killing you
Eyes close, your dead 
The person standing above you ... killed you

Oh, its not human
Its a bug 
An animal 
What Right do you have to kill it?

Like a disease you have become a murderous thing ...
Killing "things" around you that beat with a rhythm
You are a disease 
Yet, you still live 
Who's gonna kill you?

Who's the malevolence that seeks revenge and says you deserve to die now?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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