Draw the Line

Where will you draw the line?

At your front door or your funeral

At unreasonable search and seizure

Or interrogation through torture

Will you draw the line at

The corporatization of America

At economic strangulation through

Patent litigation, will you draw the line

At war-for-profit, the military-industrial complex

The vampire that requires

The blood of innocents to function efficiently

Will you draw the line when

Law enforcement demands

The laws cease to apply to them

When the only peace you have

Is your silence, refusal to acknowledge

The terrorists in Congress

The Jihad we've waged in

The name of Christianity, will you draw the line

Before you wash the blood from your hands

Before you watch the bombs drop

Or is it okay, if you can't pronounce their names

Does that somehow make them

Less than human?

Where will you draw the line?

When will you load your gun

And take aim at the ones

Who have waged war on us

When twenty-four hour surveillance is the norm

When they drape the flag over news cameras

But you can still hear the screams

Behind them

When incarceration is the first response

To insubordination, when protest is seen as

Unpatriotic, when all that's left of the dream

Is the fact that you're sleeping

Through it?

Where will you draw the line

And why, if you haven't the courage to keep them

From crossing it.