The Prophetic Spirit (2)

Michael Peach

Those "liberals" have got it wrong!
In times of moral entropy,
To counter fashion’s tyranny,
The artist’s ethics should be strong.

Jerusalem
11 December 1993

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,