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WHERE WE DRAW THE LINE
Does anyone else find it appalling as the years have tumbled by
That we’ve become accustomed to watching people die.
Anywhere we look, on the Internet or on TV
Death, destruction and civil wars make up most of what we see.
We like to think we have evolved we pride ourselves on that
We don’t see ourselves as animals...no, now we’re bureaucrats!
Which makes it kind of absurd that with all the killing going on
We’ve decided chemical weapons is to be our rubicon.
You may kill your people with guns and knives, and tanks are not bizarre
But pull out your chemical weapons and now you’ve gone too far.
Blow this city to pieces then blow up 20 more
But bring out a chemical weapon and this we can’t ignore.
Shoot rockets at each other, line your streets with shells and mines
But use a chemical weapon and you’ve overstepped the line
Since when did HOW people kill each other cause us outrage...and appall
Shouldn’t we be more horrified that people kill at all?
If the world would come together and the world would make a stand
Then we wouldn’t have to draw an arbitrary line upon the sand.
When we draw the line at killing and as a world community unite
Then and only then do we have a chance to win this fight.
Until the world is as dismayed with the killing be it chemical or not
Then this same world will never learn the lesson to be taught.
That every life is precious and if all our Gods are willing
We must, it is imperative, stop every kind of killing.
Sure I hate chemical weapons...any killing weapon yet devised
Is there anyone whose seen them who has not agonized?
But more than that I hate the fact that the rest of the world stands still
While acknowledging, hypocritically, there are acceptable ways to kill.
Yes, we kill each other like animals, and we watch while others maul
It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, if we’ve evolved at all?
