Prophecy
i hate the world today all ego and greed
a life for a life an eye for an eye
the bleeding hearts cry makes the world blind
not if i were god
i wouldn't let them kill and stand idly by
there wouldn't be innocent victims
or raped child
no god would allow that
none I'd pray to anyway
the madness has to stop
gone on long enough
time to wipe the slate clean
survival of the species
we are just the most clever animal on the planet
who's killing our host with greed
i dare you to prove otherwise
and don't hold out the good book
i'm sorry but i'll need a little more than ancient words
we have one choice
live together
or take until there's nothing left
and the world will move on without us
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Submitted on July 04, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 138 |
Stanzas | 21 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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