a series of short poems on a lesson I have learned

IN A MOMENT IT CAME TO ME!
THE MEANING OF EIGHT UNHEARD!
COME CLOSE, YOU WILL SEE!
THE LESSON AT LAST UNOBSCURED!
A LESSON IN VIOLENCE!
THAT A RIGHTEOUS MURDER DEMURED
IS NO NOBLE THING!
THIS IS WHAT THE ANGELS SING!
LOAD THE GUN AND LET IT RING!
LOAD THE GUN AND LET IT RING!

MERCY IS THIN VENEER
COWARDICE AN EMPTY SPACE
FOR ONE WHO STABS AND STEALS AND SNEERS,
LIES, TORTURES, CORRUPTS FOR YEARS
THERE IS ONLY TRUE ACT OF GRACE:

BEHIND THE BARREL, STEEL YOUR FEARS
THINK NOT OF THEIR MOTHER AND FATHER AND PEERS
SAY THIS PRAYER: “GOD WILLS YOU ERASED”

IF NOT NOW WHEN?
IF NOT YOU WHO?

THE NECESSARY LIES BEFORE YOUR EYES!
THE EVIL THRIVES! THE EVIL THRIVES!

IF YOU DO NOT ACT, THEN INNOCENCE DIES!
THE EVIL THRIVES! THE EVIL THRIVES!

WOULD YOU RELY ON THE JUSTICE OF ROME?
ASLEEP IN ITS HOME! ASLEEP IN ITS HOME!

YOU WHO WOULD SERVE THE GREATER GOOD
YOU THINK YOU SHOULDN’T
BUT YOU FUCKING SHOULD

HIS VICTIMS’ PAIN WILL STAIN YOUR SOUL
OTHERS COULDN’T
BUT YOU FUCKING COULD

HE’S JUST INSIDE ASLEEP IN BED
YOU KNOW HE’S GOODN’T
GO DO SOME GOOD

PUT THE BULLET IN HIS HEAD!
HE’S JUST INSIDE ASLEEP IN BED!

PUT THE BULLET IN HIS HEAD!
HIS EYES, RECALL, WERE DEMON RED!

PUT THE BULLET IN HIS HEAD!
WE’D ALL BE SAFER WERE HE DEAD!

PUT THE BULLET IN HIS HEAD!
OR LET YOUR FRIEND DO IT INSTEAD!

HEAD! BED!
HEAD! RED!
HEAD! DEAD!
HEAD!
HEAD!
HEAD! BED!
HEAD! RED!
HEAD! DEAD!
DEAD!
DEAD!
DEAD INSTEAD!