No Alternative

Michael Peach

There’s no alternative,
No escape;
Only through good deeds
Can one serve God.

Thus this poem mocks its creator,
Who (dismayed by human kind)
Sits all daylong
Scribbling that truth.

Jerusalem
5 April 1992

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