To Osama

To Osama


Terror builds
a life
of its own.
Meaning: once
you’ve tasted
the blood
of lambs
and virgins
you can’t
go back.
It gets harder
not to also
worship power,
not to embrace
darkness, not to
rid the world
of all the evil,
but yours, not
to examine what
blindness can abide,
once you’ve begun.