What Is Violence / Mother theresa

what is violence
what is love
why the bullet
why the dove

what to do
and where to go
in a rush
or do it slow

why your friend did
or didn't do
but never ask
just who are you

i i you say, that
i is me
though it changes
so quickly

the fear of pain
is what we flee
we flee in fright
eternally

the pain in fact
is oh so sweet
though who'd
believe
a trick so neat
that just below
the line of fear
the angels blow
their trumpets
clear

sometimes i think
i'm quite a man
sometimes i think
i never can
know what to do
to do things right
seems i have to
force or fight    

we've found ourselves
within a play
the script is written
day by day
some parts come
from long ago
some more recent
make the show

we clutch at love
and strangle it
that's fear again
we're in the shit

we tell another
what to do
that's fear my friend
i'm telling you

there is Christ
hitler, now Clinton too
there's mom and dad
and last night's screw

and there we go our merry way
jump from bed
into the play
try to influence
a bit
try not to fall
into the shit

but never ask
just who you are
or where you're going
why so far

i, i, you say
that i is me
though it changes
so quickly