Despite Our Fears

Michael Peach

Despite our fears, let’s never cease
To nurse with tears the seeds of peace.

Jerusalem
15 June 2003

Like all the kindest men’s in history, Will’s anima was

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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