Osama bin Laden is dead.
My countrymen killed him,
men who went to his home
with the purpose of killing him,
in cold blood.
Osama bin Laden is dead.
I am sad that my country could do such a thing,
even though it was in response
to his ordering the killing of thousands of people,
in cold blood.
Osama bin Laden is dead.
Now he will plot no more.
His death was preventive medicine:
he would no doubt have eventually planned more terrorist acts
which would have killed more of our friends and neighbors,
in cold blood.
Osama bin Laden is dead.
He was a child of God,
who wandered far away from God's will
that all humans love and cherish each other.
But as a child of God,
he was my brother.
He did not know this.
Shouldn't we have told him?
He was one for whom Christ died,
in cold blood.
Osama bin Laden is dead.
We must pray for the cleansing of humanity,
that no more shall die,
in cold blood.
Lucy Hook Porter
May 2, 2011
Lucy Hook Porter is a retired United Methodist pastor and hospital chaplain, currently residing in New York City with her husband, Scott. Together they currently offer a traveling ministry of humor and music, "Locally Famous Lucy and Scott."