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?