Count the cost

 

Count the cost.

A child's life,

priceless treasure. Lost.

Fired upon. Gone.

Count the cost.

Medics bled, no guns,

a bullet in the head.

Count the cost. Run.

Hospitals fled, Buried dead.

Once you see 

all as enemy

You've already lost.

 

Count the lost

young mother.

Future uncounted

Encountered a sniper.

Enemy. Threat.

Heaven wept.

Count the cost.

Arming forces

that don't respect

laws. They have their own clause.

Once you start killing innocents

You get no applause. No rewards.

You're already a lost cause.

 

Count the lost

All the blood.

All the limbs.

All the tears,

every drop spilling.

Count the cost.

Once you start killing 

innocents you're already lost.

 

Count the costs.

Those that crash

down like rain 

from above,

Follow the money

Watch who profits

from all of the blood.

Count the cost

of all of those rockets.

Count the cost,

in feeding their pockets.

Once you start

killing innocents

You're all

Lost

 

Count the lost

A generation,

and those left waiting,

will be left with hate 

burned deep into their skin.

Living in fear of those

who brought forth this fate.

Count the cost.

Once you start

killing innocents

you've already lost.

 

 

 

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