The notion of blood for blood
Only unleashes a flood
Of endless recrimination
Guilt without discrimination
Life too costly, death on sale
Kill the head without detail
Bodies burned, bleeding, broken
The unspeakable unspoken
Even where it bleeds it leads
Empire’s where excess exceeds
Using media to stroke us
Unsleeping lens directs our focus
“Over there!” our eyes thus turn
While behind us cities burn
The human toll they always hide
None dare call it genocide
Blood runners
Our crimson ebb and flow
Don’t get caught up in the truth
It’s on a need to know
The rule, as we’ve learned, is to take it
And quietly’s always preferred
The law is of rule and to break it
Is to have our dead bodies interred
Injustice, rulers partake it
Our outraged voices aren’t heard
Justice in law’s how they fake it
And criminal law is absurd
Blood runners
Our systems sinking low
There are places so disgraceful
Even heroes dare not go
Their game can be played by all
Regardless their protests
Anyone can field their ball
We’re players, not just guests
We scare them to stand up tall
And show we’re not mere pests
No longer held in killer’s thrall
In pieces empire rests
Blood runners
Our crimson ebb and flow
Don’t get caught up in the truth
It’s on a need to know
Blood runners
Our systems sinking low
There are places so disgusting
Even saviors dare not go
Blood runners
As our numbers grow
Sic semper tyrannis
Undermine, then overthrow
© 2024 ArtAHammer
3/27/24 Arturo Hammer
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