Numbers

Number for birth
Number to die
They give you a number
For all your life

Number for dead in a war
Number to call the police
Number to pay for your food
Number to number your grave

Number you lose
Number you win
It can change your life
It can set your sin

Number to say who you are
Number for fate
Number of days in a year
Number to hate

Evidence of strenght, intelligence
Penitence, decadence, ignorance
To be counted, enumerated and despised
Maybe enjoyed, even sacred and destroyed