The Prophetic Spirit (1)

Michael Peach

Without a doubt my soul is split
Between the poet and the Jew;
That’s why the only shoes which fit
Are those the troubled Prophets knew.

Jerusalem
25 December 1992

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,