The taking of one human life
We all agree to be high crime
That usually demands a just punishment
It is a sin
That God abhors and will also judge

But several hundred thousand lives
Of mainly bystanders
To massive military exercise
By the world’s mightiest armies
For goals that could never be justified
Defies the bravest explanation

What judgment of The Almighty
Should rightly fall upon those people
Who have winked
As their machines of death have
Eliminated these children of the Father?

May God have mercy!