Killing

What's worse?
Killing by words
the tongue of the knife
or brutally knocking
someone down and killing them
in mental strife, invariably
caused by the words of the
knife
for we are all at it, killing
each other one way or the other
we kill our brother and sister
or baby with wrong mothering
destroying souls by our education
systems, greed or envy
and not preparing each other for life
The potentially beautiful wife to
the soul