choose

you chose death
delivered suffering
to innocents

whose crime –
to let you live
amongst them

for your god?
I think not,
to feed your hate

and now
like a rabid dog
they hunt you

I mourn you not
but regret
your choice

so much good
waits to be done
and you embraced death

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