Forgive Me, Please Poem by Diana van den Berg

Whilst understanding,
though you may not think so,
the tremendous significance
of the death of Osama Bin Laden,
though Al Quaeda still lives
and will find a new leader
if they don’t already have
one or some...

please forgive me
and please, please, please try to understand
if, for just one tiny moment
of possibly unforgivable unreciprocated mercy,
I am saddened
at the death
of one human being,
despite his atrocious and forever unforgivable inhumanity
to many more than the thousands he killed.

(2 May 2011)