Words don't kill?How about the words on a page
Written by the sovereign of a country
As he condemns a person to a work camp
That is really a work until death camp
For some imagined violation or unproven crime?
How about a telegram
Like that informing a mother
That her five boys were killed
When the USS Juneau sank in naval action
Only this different mother
who had sons in the navy
All on a single ship
Who were just as special
Has had a heart attack
Reading each sorrowful line
Perhaps an executive order by a President
Ordering the nuclear bombs dropped
On Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ending the war
With the greatest count of the dead
For all time?
Words kill.
They kill more than you know.
They kill for terrible reasons
And they kill for informative reasons.
Words Kill.
