Myth

Michael Peach

Those who “believe in” the One God
Should ask themselves: “Is it not odd
That other faiths’ myths are basically fiction,
While our great legends are factual diction?”

The answer, of course, is that myth is the core
Of Faith per se, and serves as the door
To truths that escape the literal bore
Who cannot believe in metaphor.

Jerusalem
6 September 1995

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