HATRED'S FACE ( THE KILLING OF BIN LADEN)

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JOURNAL # 40

'Hatred's Face'
found itself slapped hard
today
and certainly the world cheers
as justice is served up
to a certain group
at any rate
I am just not so sure how to feel
I understand the symbolism
of such capture and killing
for which this man's death stands
but I cannot be so happy
over the killing of a man
I am happy though for
his victim's family's
apparent relief
but on the other hand
at some given point
someone somewhere that shares
his blood and linage will likely
too have to grieve
keep in mind
he was an uncle, brother, son and father too
I am conflicted by the rhetoric the media spews
again let me reiterate today I am happy
for those who find justice ere closure
in knowing this one particular man no
longer has the power to hurt anyone
he deems is an infidel or enemy to his cause
but like any capital punishment case
killing the perpetrator doesn't bring back
any victim's family's loss
the hole still remains
and revenge is always a dish
best served up cold
I still think I'll pray even though some awful
things that man has in misguided hatred done
that God will have mercy of some sort upon
his sullied soul
as I am near certain the victims who died from
the plotting of his own hands
have already forgiven him
and evolved even farther on
to be even more God like souls......................
(May 2, 2011 1016am)

Author's Notes/Comments:

my thoughts on the capture and killing of Bin Laden. I am happy he is no longer able to inspire others to kill but I could not help but feel a bit sad for his family. I read one of his son's too was killed but he had many children along side many siblings his own. Some won't understand but I try to be broad in my thinking. In summation I suppose I could say if one lives by the sword /terror one dies by the sword/terror so in that regard it makes sense. I have evolved a good bit myself. I use to think kill em if they did awful things and let them go back to meet their maker all the sooner and stand to receive their sentence from God directly but now as I age I think of the injured family members of such people. Even Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer had a loving mother and father who grieved his loss and were hurt by all his heinous crimes when uncovered by the police investigation and subsequent trial that revealed them. In such moments it is those people I grieve too for as well as the victims but I know this is a long coming monumental day for many a person in the world and that the Bible says the penalty of sin is Death and God knows this man sure did even if only indirectly break the first commandment over and over of THOU SHALL NOT KILL so know that this poem was not easy for me to write as I was conflicted the whole time as it poured out of me. I don't want to seem a Bin Laden sympathizer by no means but heinous murder, then the subsequent capture and death of the perpetrator is very similar. It's wrong to kill and yet we kill you know. I think that will be a debatable issue for the ages yet to come but know that truly for those families here and abroad who lost a loved one due to this one man's orders and or actions I am happy for them and I feel God will give him what he deserves for the heinous deeds he has fueled others to commit in his name. I pray some modicum of peace, the end to this man's life brings to the world.