In the distance, they are circling   I watch them go around and around, never tiring   The one near death is hypnotized and closes its eyes   One last time   Patiently they wait for that perfect moment to descend   And pick to pieces a once healthy   Body of passion and life      It’s me or it’s you and I get to decide   Which one lives and which one dies   Where and when?   How and why?   HERE and NOW   A vital organ plucked out   Because I need to survive   Self-sacrifice is suicide      Circling with occasional cries   Of delight?   Of anticipation or remorse for nature’s ceaseless patterns?   Binding every being to the same sick fate   What unfortunate creature must suffer   Watching a thousand deaths spiral slowly towards it      It’s me or it’s you and I get to decide   Which one lives and which one dies   Where and when?   How and why?   HERE and NOW   A vital organ plucked out   Because I need to survive   Self-sacrifice is suicide      What unfortunate creature must suffer   Watching a thousand deaths spiral towards it   With the will but not the strength to move on   From this place   Just close your eyes, just breathe your last sigh   Just let go of this life   Just close your eyes, just breathe your last sigh   Just let go, it’s come now, your time      How do you want us to die?   With regrets rotting away all of my success?   With longing eating away at my fulfillment?   Must every self-interested act inflict   Devastation on another?   Would you rather rot or be picked to pieces (still) alive?   How do you want us to die?