“The Kingdom of Heaven”

Michael Peach

"Heaven" means God, not pieful skies;
In wholesome hearts His "Kingdom" lies.

Jerusalem
20 September 1998

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,