A bullet costs less than a quarter

A life is cut shorter

A bullet is made of lead 

A life is dead

A bullet is fast

A life's wound is vast

A bullet hits hard

A life is scarred

A bullet is loud

But life has allowed

For a bullet to exist 

Rather than blacklist

A bullet hits all they say 

It makes the news straightaway

But a bullet costs a quarter 

And life is its importer