Osama

Note: This is not a glorification or endorsement for Osama Bin Laden. If you read this carefully and honestly you will realize that. However I know most people don't read carefully or honestly so I know some of you will find this offensive and disgusting. So be it. Take it anyway you wish - W. F. Rhoads.

Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice, or the Lord will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from him. Proverbs 24:17-18

What can be said

for one such as this?

he was not a coward,

he was not a hypocrite,

he was not a madman

hungry for power;

in many ways he was everything

most of us dream of being;

fearless, committed,

standing firm for what he believed,

openly declaring war on an enemy

much more powerful than he,

turning his back on wealth and greed,

paying the consequences for his actions;

“for all who draw the sword will die

by the sword.” Matthew 26:52.

Late night comics gleefully mock,

anything for ratings and cheap laughs,

children, drunk and spoiled,

dance in the street,

chanting words and catch phrases

about issues they neither understand

nor could care less about,

just another excuse to party,

celebrating like some super bowl

or national championship victory;

you reaped what you sowed,

but your victims deserved better

than this.

I do not mourn your death,

rather I find it sad that one such as you

could be deceived,

unable to find the truth,

swallowed up by the darkness,

blinded by the hatred;

it makes me wonder what hope there is

for the rest of us.

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