I Am Not Ordinary Man* Poem by David Keig

I am death
I am destroyer
I am not ordinary man
I have kept all people faithless
Since the present world began.

I am Stalin
I am Hitler
I am everything you fear
I prey on people's consciences
And I am always near.

I am madness
I am anger
I am the cancer in the cell
I am the one that draws the line
Between what’s heaven
And what's hell.

I am not
The known grim reaper
I am not called Lucifer
I am courteous to strangers
And I listen
Very well.

I am Iraq
I am Bali
I've been to 'Ghanistan.

I'm not the devil
I'm imperfect
For I am simply Man.

* Reposted from a year ago because of interest in the 'cut down version' entitled 'Vengeance'.