June 21, 2010, 3:22 PM

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  • ManOnTheMoon
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June 21, 2010, 3:22 PM

What is the price of one mans life?
The cost of all he has done,
What he could have done?
The cost that might have changed the world,
For better or for worst?
That his thoughts are worth less than any other mans?
For all he has been accused?
Did he know he crossed that line?
Some where imagined in his payers mind?
Something that he HAD to die for?
Was it that important,
To change the world with another death?
But what about the paid?
How did he come up with his numbers?
Based on age?
Race?
Sex?
Beliefs?
Does he see beyond a face that has no name?
Just another target to be made?
To see not man, but beast,
In this ever living,
Breathing hunt?
When all is said,
All is done,
It is then,
And only then,
When it is judged upon that day when he shall die,
That it should be judged the change his death has made...

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TheGlitteryPup commented on June 21, 2010, 3:22 PM

07-12-2016

Some of your poems remind me of Five Finger Death Punch songs.

LadyLuck commented on June 21, 2010, 3:22 PM

09-21-2010

I LIKE! beautiful flow, love your tone, and message. What indeed is the price equal to? The impact of his death? maybe

ManOnTheMoon

07/26/2011

I thank you for your compliment, and taking the time to read. It is a very good question to ask now and again, and raises more as to what happens when ones life does exceed another.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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