I Wonder

Michael Peach

I wonder how I shall endure
When microlights will fill the skies;
When there’s no desert, hill or shore
Still free from noise and roving eyes.

Jerusalem
5 February 1994

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,