Silent Killer

As everyday passes rage continues to grow
Why does it have to be this way?
What will make you happy?
Do the birds singing, or
The trees swaying
Make you crack a smile?
How about the very breath in your lungs?
Life means nothing to you?
Maybe your life has been beaten
Like two boxers going at it in a ring
Heartless heart, bitterer attitude
Remembrance of battle scars while growing up
Aggravates you and your split personality is introduced
Always right and never wrong
Yet you should be under arrest
For assault with a deadly weapon or even murder
Life and death is in the power of your tongue
No need for weapons of mass destruction
When your tongue shoots words that kill
You interrogate yourself to see if you’re guilty
But you refuse to turn yourself in
It’s like high blood pressure
You don’t even know you have it
It’s so obvious, you can’t even hide
But there is no remedy for a silent killer
That is called PRIDE.

Rick Salinas