Today is May 17th and over at worldmag.com. A new poem of yours was published

Pastor John. It's a serious poem titled Grace Forfeited, Adam Tamerlan, and The

Lady. It's a poem about justice in regard to the school shooting in New

Town and the death of the first suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Explain

the background of this poem for us and the biblical categories you explore in

it. You know, last December 14, Adam Lonza shot and killed 22, 6-year-old, 8-year-old

children, and then he shot himself. And that was that. And Tamerlan, John Neff,

bombed the marathon with his brother. He killed three people, ripped the legs off

a dozen others whose lives are forever changed, and then he was killed in a

rain of bullets and some head trauma by the police. And that was that. I mean,

there goes Tamerlan. And here's the question I've been I've been asking has just

just been done because they're dead. Can you hatefully, wantonly slaughter people

created in the image of God and then get away with it through suicide, a millisecond,

a millisecond of pain. Can you thumb your nose at the punishment of the state or at

God and end it your own way? Can you rob? This is one of the characters in the poem. Can

you rob Lady Justice of her perfect rectitude in your case? And the poem answers, no, you

cannot. This world is not one long injustice ending in nothingness. Lady Justice, you

know, if you if you see the picture of her with her scales, she's always blindfolded. And

that's to show impartiality. But one of the paradoxes in the poem is, though blindfolded,

one of her people that she has assigned justice to ever escapes her final decrees, that last

pop of the gun to your own head is heard on the other side of hope, like a slamming door.

And the guilty who have spurned the grace of God, all their lives suddenly realize, I

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