Best Eye For An Eye Poems
There once was a couple of brats
who engaged in continuous spats.
The result was a tie
when each scratched out an eye -
an old-Biblical tit for a tat!
The brats awoke bleeding and weak
when, half-seeing the havoc they’d wreaked,
they discarded their clothes,
their behinds to expose -
a new-Biblical turning of cheek!
Who adores an ancient lore chore
And loves to see gore and wage war
Yet sore pouring pain?
This stems from an old brain
A story of man’s evil core
Eye for an eye : There is no justice greater than love
Do you do things bad when somebody does bad things to you?
Do you give an eye for an eye?
At the moment, it seems like the logical thing to do
But for the long run, you don't want to do that
You don't want that evil thing that you do
to get back to you
Oh yeah it will get back to you
It's like a rubber band
When you shoot when pulling
does it come back to you?
Oh yeah because we are like a circle
Anything we do will come back to us
Watch it
But does it mean you are always nice and easy?
No you can tell that to me
I am never nice and easy
Just kidding lol
But just do whatever you feel like it
Just don't do an eye for an eye
Isn't that what the Bible said?
Yeah but God also said
Galatians 6:10 "so then, as we have opportunity,
let us do good to everyone..."
Ephesians 4:32 "be kind to one another, tenderhearted
forgive one another, as God in Christ forgave you"
And "be angry and do not sin..." (Ephesians 4:26)
So you see it does not mean that you can't be angry
It does not mean that you don't want revenge
But check yourself
Are you better than that?
Do you stoop to that level?
No
So just do the good things
And everything turns out just fine
Did I tell you
that I want to....?
Haha, not going to tell you
3/3/17
Do you believe in an eye for an eye?
Better use your mind
With determination and effort applied
It's in your best interest to try
Because time flies
Opportunities drawing nigh, just may pass you by
Involving wins, losses and ties
In the end what you happened to find
Could've led to suprise
And speculation towards opposing sides
Respect to animals and human kind
We all get caught in a bind
And occasionally need to unwind
While aiming to thrive
As we survive
Along for the ride
Worldwide
Pushing through the daily grind
We all take dives
So continue to rise
And climb
Ever so high
Above terrain waterlogged or bone dry
Day and night
Appreciate life
Before after and during quite the plight
Some just want to pry
And spy
Living one big lie
Does no good to deny
Regardless of if you think you're being sly
Remains covered up with lye
Instead of lime
From here to way beyond Shanghai
Animals, sattelites and spacecrafts fly among the sky
By: Dalton Ogletree
Generations come, generations go
Many praying to leave the world better
Than the ones who came before
In every single person there is bad
In every single person is good
We all harbor hate inside us
We all harbor love
Hate it causes blindness, bitterness and sting
It refuses to listen to reason
Leaves us crippled and mislead
Love it opens doorways to a better future
It listens with an open heart
Letting go of past inflictions
Letting a nation mend
With hate the wounds will remain infected
With the prejudices of so long ago
Never able to bandage the wounds inflicted
So the sores they continue to bleed
It only takes one person
One who is unafraid to shout to the masses
This hate must stop
So this hurt it can mend
Our ancestors before us knew a secret
One that kept them continuing living
Continuing to love
They knew to forgive but always remember the pain they survived
So that they could be sure to pass down to the future generations
Not the hate and intolerance
But all the love inside
All the good
It's time to honor their spirits
It's time to heal the pain
So all that the ones before us endured
Will never go in vain
Open up our ears and hearts
Shut out all the hate
For once listen with our hearts to hear
Instead of always hearing what our minds deep inside fear
I found the one, I believe
was truly meant to be
but not before you believed
you found the same in me
I remember how much it meant to you
when I reached for your hand
I never thought it was that big a deal
but now I understand
The way you used to crave my touch
to feel our skin on skin
Yours raging hot, mine soft and cool
no matter where or when
Now I know the ache you felt
each time he passes by
every time he reaches out
something melts inside
I couldn't count how many times
you tried to make me see
that somehow all your drive in life
you then derived from me.
Now his support and steady faith
I've found to fuel a fire
He sees my diamond in the rough
and keeps my dreams inspired
When you and I said our goodbyes
I never felt your pain.
I was overwhelmed with under-wow
so tired from the strain.
Now I know what could have been
if we had found a way
to live our lives in harmony
and thankful for each day.
I found this love so late in life
I fear how long it lasts
Time is now my enemy
as youthful days have passed
In the stillness of the night
I fight the tears I cry
I know what Karma has in store
for me with his goodbye.
-Jeannie Minor
I'm in the house all alone.
(She is no where near alone in this house.)
I hear the ringing of the phone.
(And believe me its not just a mere mouse.)
I answer, but oddly there is no one there.
(Not even a dial tone, will she hear on the line.)
I think this is more than the average scare.
(When this is over, not even her body, they'll find.)
I hang up and turn around, eyes open wide.
(My decaying corpse I shall let her see.)
I realize suddenly I'm trapped inside.
(Tell whomever you want, but no one will believe.)
Even though I'm locked inside, I still try to flee.
(I slam the door, there is no escape here!)
Oh why, oh why won't this ghost let me free?
(Oh how I love the smell of her fear!)
Oh Lord I wish I could take back that night.
(She should never have been drinking.)
When I ran her down in drunken delight.
(What was wrong with her, what was she thinking?)
I got out of the car to see what I had hit.
(I lay on the road a crumpled heap.)
In my stupor I pick her up so I can take her to a fresh dug pit.
(She throws me carelessly in the back of her Jeep.)
I now see for the wrong I've done I MUST make amend.
(Breathing hard with sweat beading on her forehead.)
I grab my chest as my life suddenly comes to an end.
(Eye for an eye we're even now that she too, is dead.)
For the Duo's Game, Thanks John Loving III for tapping us!!! Sandra Hudson & Sami
Al-Khahili, You both are next!
I'm in the house all alone.
(She is no where near alone in this house.)
I hear the ringing of the phone.
(And believe me its not just a mere mouse.)
I answer, but oddly there is no one there.
(Not even a dial tone, will she hear on the line.)
I think this is more than the average scare.
(When this is over, not even her body, they'll find.)
I hang up and turn around, eyes open wide.
(My decaying corpse I shall let her see.)
I realize suddenly I'm trapped inside.
(Tell whomever you want, but no one will believe.)
Even though I'm locked inside, I still try to flee.
(I slam the door, there is no escape here!)
Oh why, oh why won't this ghost let me free?
(Oh how I love the smell of her fear!)
Oh Lord I wish I could take back that night.
(She should never have been drinking.)
When I ran her down in drunken delight.
(What was wrong with her, what was she thinking?)
I got out of the car to see what I had hit.
(I lay on the road a crumpled heap.)
In my stupor I pick her up to take her to a fresh dug pit.
(She throws me carelessly in the back of her Jeep.)
I now see for the wrong I've done I MUST make amend.
(Breathing hard with sweat beading on her forehead.)
I grab my chest as my life suddenly comes to an end.
(Eye for an eye we're even now that she too, is dead.)
For the duos, thanks for John Loving for tapping Sandra Hudson & Sami Al-Khahili, You both
are next!
Your son was a lowlife hooligan.
Last year he murdered my son.
When it came to having the ability to show mercy, your son sure did lack it.
He shot my son right between the eyes because of his expensive jacket.
My boy gave him the jacket but he killed him anyway.
When I identified my son's body, your son had to pay.
Your son wanted to prove to his gang members that he was big and bad.
He shot my son in cold blood and returning the favor made me feel glad.
Your son was arrested but a bleeding heart judge let him out on bail.
A few hours later your son became the victim of a 44 Magnum Shell.
I killed him the same exact way that he killed my son, a bullet right between the eyes.
I didn't realize that a man could get so much pleasure by seeing another person die.
It was an eye for an eye, I pulled my gun on him and it felt so good to shoot.
But your son's death isn't good enough for me, I hope he fries in Hell to boot.
(This is a fictional poem)
An eye for an eye blinds the entire world.
By this action one negates the whole truth;
And so creates a boomerang unfurled.
With bitter hate and villainous uncouth,
There is fallacy that might is right, thus
By this action one negates the whole truth.
With sordid haste, being so atrocious,
The world’s play-book flutters with rage, selfish;
There is fallacy that might is right, thus.
By this token, without any blemish,
An eye for an eye may seem justified;
The world’s play-book flutters with rage, selfish.
While millions of people are petrified,
Flailing hopes and dreams only fantasy
An eye for an eye may seem justified.
All lives matter in eyes of Gandhiji;
An eye for an eye blinds the entire world.
Flailing hopes and dreams only fantasy;
And so creates a boomerang unfurled.
Is this my moment of clarity or another illusion
It's hard to fight a battle when it feels like you keep losing
I question would it be best if I had a short fuse or try to just defuse this
Sometimes it's useless and with knowing that, some choose to abuse this
An eye for an eye, it's hard to tell if we are even on the same side anymore
the rumors are true when it rains it pours
But that's what happens when you keep knocking on the wrong door
I can only speak for self and the way I felt
It's an eye for an eye, I never did switch sides
but this is what happens when the worst out the best people collide
Over-power the masses single-handedly
One against many, against any calamity
Exhaust a man's will
To bend at his own
So what if it kills (him)
--The man has no soul--
Grew stronger by the day
Fueled by love and hate
A ruler and a slave
Together in hell
In a shell as hollow as his name
Unravel deception
As it crept in
Hints and clues
At first obtuse
By looking through
A distorted view
*[chorus]*
Revenge negotiates no truce
When he comes to settle the score
Burning with a short fuse
A napalm death in store
Slay the day, chase the night away
A midnight star now cast astray
Darkness falls before the light of dawn
And in that time, your life will be gone
Regain a power within
As you drain the guilt of sin
--You know where you've been--
Can’t forget so won't forgive
Don’t know how to live and let live
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
I still live by an ancient rule
In a modern day of techno tools
Withstanding the strands of time and change
Sent forth to exist on any plane
*[chorus]*
Revenge negotiates no truce
When he comes to settle the score
Burning with a short fuse
A napalm death in store
Slay the day, chase the night away
A midnight star now cast astray
Darkness falls before the light of dawn
And in that time, your life will be gone
Take from me, you will no more
For I am back to settle the score
More powerful than I was before
Stand with no chance
When I hit full-force
Show no mercy when balance is restored
Tip the scale you will no more
All will pay for their one mistake
No escape from my grip that day
*[chorus]*
Revenge negotiates no truce
When he comes to settle the score
Burning with a short fuse
A napalm death in store
Slay the day, chase the night away
A midnight star now cast astray
Darkness falls before the light of dawn
And in that time, your life will be gone
-Boz
The Twin Tower fell
A dastardly crime
A fact not diminished
By the passage of time.
The perpetrators were Saudis,
But Saudi Arabia supplied oil
A comfortable relationship
The West didn’t want to spoil.
They had to do,something,
That was quickly understood,
So they invaded Afghanistan
Just because they could.
After twenty years of chaos
The West withdrew
And the rule of the Taliban
Began again anew
Leaving a battered country
As only invasion can.
Osama Bin laden and crew
Had been found in Pakistan.
There’s a bright end to this story
Realtions with Saudi didn’t spoil
And so to this very day we
Can till rely on their oil.
There’s a Twin Tower Memorial
Bearing each victim’s name:
Sadly over in Afghanistan
They’ve not done the same.
You really don't deserve to breathe this air, you really don't deserve to look at me.
He knew the front door, he knew the stair that creaked.
He knew now how she did it
He knew now of her deeds.
Thinking of them gone forever
The burning ate away his soul
He knew he had to end it
But one thing was left before he'd go
She'd never want him to do this
Never, not even for the twins
But his life was already over
So what difference would this make to things?
He stood watching her sleep
In the dark he watched her dream
Then he shone the torch at her
She didn't see a thing
No words were spoken to her
She asked what did he want
She heard him cock the lever
Went quiet and begged him to relent
He moved the torch light from her
She was transfixed on it as it went away
He turned the torch light on himself
So she could see her reapers face
He smiled to her for a second
The bangs cracked the tension in the air
The light hit the floor
As blood flowed together
Down the wooden stair.