The Gardener

Michael Peach

I do not seek a thornless rose
Or a land where Summer never dies;
And I praise indeed the man who knows
That Mother Nature never lies.

Jerusalem
20 August 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,