A Religious Empiricist (1)

Michael Peach

Though some would call this blasphemy,
At times the thought occurs to me
That our convulsive world might be
A small Divine laboratory.

Jerusalem
16 January 1995

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,