One Step Away

facing brutality i struggle with morality 
i don't think that i can take it anymore 
indoctrinated into cultural norms functionless forms: 
"dominate and bleed infect with greed" and we succumb... 
i aggressive inherently am the illegitmate child 
of the gun intertwined with the dollar sign 
and now as i walk through the valley of the shadow of death 
i have become your evil and your hate is within me 
for the rod and the staff have taught me all to well 
these hands would drip with blood 
if i traded truth for certainty 
power beckons to the unsure and afraid 
the atavists of ignorance who initiate 
our bodies cast the shadow of everyone who has ever lived 
and all the gods all the demons all the heavens 
and all the hells are within us... 
but that i privilaged revolutionary could prescribe rites 
of passage for all? in preparing bloody defenses 
let our lineage remain clear:Armenia, Nanking, East Timor, 
Cambodia, Rwanda, Iraq, Kosovo the shattered lives 
and battered wives, underscored by forceful lies 
are inside of us, inside of me 
i aggressive inherently could destroy humanity 
i'm only one step away 
one single blow unjustified 
i'm only one step away 
caught between rule or be ruled 
want or want not 
with no easy way out