We are all born dying.
New born or centenarian,
the clock ticks, the clock ticks.
Eventually,
eventuality kicks in.
The healthy become dead as do the sick.\
The ratio of death to life is one to one.
Death is the natural outcome of birth.
It’s just a matter of time.
It’s just a matter of fact.
Can one man really kill another man
since to be born is to be doomed to die.
The bullet, the knife, the poison,
the knee on the neck does not cause
but merely hastens inevitable death.
This is the “murder is impossible’ defense’ offered
a jury in the case of a blue knee on a black neck.
Will this argument bring conviction or acquittal
in the defense of one charged with a murder?
The nation awaits the jury’s verdict.
A citizen named George does not wait.