The Man I Killed

When they tightly strap me in,
give me lethal injection,
Just a few moments to live,
no remorse for what I did,
It was for the betterment of man,
I gave the utmost sacrifice,
Before more damage could be done I took his life.

There was a split second of silence
when the dart punctured the skin,
Beady eyes rolled back in head,
body dropped from the poison,
They could incapacitate me,
but could not erase my sneer,
I heard a thousand people screaming,
while three billion others cheered,
He was gone, and I would soon be...

Executed by the state, all appeals would be in vain,
I was not criminally insane, in fact,
I was found to be,
An otherwise caring and respectable member of society,
A minor threat, except for that one man I killed.

As the sedatives take effect,
I just smile and close my eyes,
There's a priest kneeling next to me,
he asks me if I realize,
I was going straight to hell,
and he thought that I should know,
That the man I killed's replacement
planned this whole scenario,
And what I did had no significance at all.