Death upon the earth does rage
And shakes the humble soil
Underneath the wars they wage
For power, peace and oil.
There’s blood in every quiet street
And hate in every vein,
Sold and packaged, nice and neat;
The government’s campaign.
The people pray out to be saved;
For justice, love and peace,
But this is not the contract made
When God had made men free.
“Come brothers to the balcony!
I hear the people call!
We must go now! The soul decrees
To end this wicked brawl!”
The angels watched in frenzied dread
As the feud of man did grow
And Justice retched and turned her head
From the horrors down below.
“I must go now” She feebly says,
“So many people cry.
They call for me, for justice
For the innocents that die.”
“Sister, this is not our fight,
And there will be repercussions.
You’ll have your chance to set things right
When their souls come for their judgement
You are not the law of man.
Man's law is revenge.
And if you step on mortal land
That day will be your end.”
“Then what of you, Peace, will you go?
Will their voices go unheard?
We cannot stay when down below
War marches on the earth!”
“Each choice of theirs has led to this.
These choices called for brother.
Man requires both War and Peace;
One cannot be without the other.”
In fury, Justice turned to leave
And grabbed her blazing sword,
She stormed upon the battlefield
To face her brother, War.
But on the way she heard the sound
Of a desperate woman crying
Standing over blood soaked ground
Where her murdered son was lying.
Justice looked upon the face
Of the tiny child slain
And the mother prayed for justice
For the man who caused her pain.
She found the killer as he fled
And raised her fierce steel high
She thrust it in his gasping neck
And watched him as he died.
But Justice was not finished yet
For now there was another death
And mortal law dictates this debt
Be paid with her own final breath.
And so she raised her arm again
And lifted up her head.
She slid the blade across her neck
And lay beside him dead.
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