Eye for an eye

"Turn the other cheek!"
a priest commanded,
spittle dripping from my face;
I was searching for
a way through life and
thought Hell! Why not?
and let him slap
the other cheek too.

These pretentious words
weren't any use though, so
I thought Why follow
what the bible says?
I should do it
the other way around!
Instead, I lived the
'eye for an eye' way--

I passed every blow back
and turned every joke
upside down, and
it was great fun! --
but then I met a bloke 
carrying a gun, and
finally, I knew what
the bible should have said:

For living by 'eye for an eye'
one needs to have a
damn lot of eyes.