An Eye for an Eye

[Brian mclaughlin]

An eye for an eye
leaves everyone blind
vengeance is always
best left behind

To repay evil with evil
cannot balance a scale
it's just amplified evil
doling out one more fail

Things are only made worse
when you follow that course
why do men still believe
they're immune to this curse

Will man ever learn
or let his soul burn
while anger within him
continues to churn

It's time to wake up
repay evil with kind
your reward is within
as it brings peace of mind

Breaking the cycle
preserving our sight
it may not be easy
but well worth the fight

[saw]

I'm normally not that fond of rhyming poems, but I like this one.....it has the flow of peace itself

[justwalt]

nice ideas, truly I believe,
but I don't have two hundred years
or more to see the change...

fighting evil, (if you're the good guy),
is all there is for good to do.

to not fight evil, equally, creates an imbalance,
and to overpower evil, also creates an imbalance.

but this battle of balance has existed for billions of years...

now which was it... the universe is infinitely huge, or that
we were infinitely small?

[still.trucking]

RE: An Eye for an Eye
thank you very much for the poem, it was a very satisfying read (f)or me