A Prayer (1)

Michael Peach

This is a prayer for all those
Who, bereft of recognition and public acclaim,
Strive to express their inner truth
Through paint or stone or ink.

Jerusalem 6 April 1992

How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and

If the complex causes of the catalytic Sado-masochistic syndrome Of

Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve

Whereas the good and loving One God Endows all humans

Though for many reasons The “two-state solution” Is now dead,