Say you had an employee
Or even say a daughter or a son
Or even a stranger and you knew
Beyond all shadows of doubts
That what they were doing had gone
Far beyond wrong
Or offensive
However you wanted to name the awful
Thing that they had done
But for arguments sake let’s say…
You knew this crime would never, ever
Come to pass in this world again
That it was all said and done for…
No one else would ever die alone
No child suffer like the ones
That had been done before
At the hands of your beloved one
Could you live with your silence?
Could you exist for life as the accomplice?
After the horrors, and never speak?
You forever, the accomplice after the fact?
Some could
Some not
Depends on who
And what
Or maybe the decision is one
Of indecision?
Through all the days to come
Plod on, plod on
Who knows?
The argument is not yet done…
There’s more…
What if the crime came from the top?
What if your boss was the one you had to speak out about
And then his
And then the one above him?
And then above him? The capo di tutti capo,
El Jefe de Los Jefes
And of the assassins that serve
The cause of Murder
From fear or
Simple pay-offs that pile to heaven
While burying them one and all in hell?
Oh, here’s what we do!
Let’s just say we didn’t know!
Had not even the lowest of minor suspects
In our sight!
(The Nazis tried this line but it didn’t wash)
If there’s a God would he accept that?
Could you sell this to your eternal soul?
Could you?
I see you’re having your doubts right now
A preacher once said that his gospel story was real
For how could so many lay down their lives
(Yea, this means die)
For a thing that was just a lie?
I wonder if his tongue twisted in his head
Did his cadence wrap around his own throat?
Did he believe himself his own lie…
The fact is
Million have died for lies
(I’m not saying if his gospel was true or not)
Let’s just say it
Right here, right now!
If it be so damned hard to
To shut your mouth on the crimes of just one loved one
What of those that kill Millions?
What of them?
Think on this:
You that say speak of love and care
How you love poetry and how a song
May lift you away from the everyday
And all that…
Then let me say this:
You can love your country, countrymen
And not worship your government
You don’t have to cover up the crimes
In silence
