The Human Mind

Michael Peach

The time-bound human mind is tossed
By fear and guilt from past to future
And back again, until it feels
The loving God is always present.

Jerusalem
30 October 1996

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,