Requiem of a Bleeding Corpse

"...but did we once target innocent people?"

I don't know.
Suppose you turn a gun on somebody...?
Suppose they could be a terrorist.
There have been terrorists dressed like civilians.

Do you pull the trigger?

Do you take advantage of all those years of human advancement
And apply some pressure to a curved piece of metal that,
When depressed,
Will send a messenger of death into that person?

What is the value of human life?

They bombed us
We bombed them
They killed our women and children
We killed theirs

When does it stop?

Perhaps we need a few more years before we realize:
Jesus did in fact save the world by showing love to everyone.

...Including his enemies.

I ask again, would you pull the trigger?

Would you have the hate, love, and mental callous to do it?

Years later,
When you went home,
Could you live with the fact
That you had to deny somebody
The greatest gift ever bestowed upon them?
Or would you approve from thousands of miles away?