Time

Michael Peach

Be not cowed by bullying Time;
For he controls the mortal flesh,
While the Soul belongs to God.

Jerusalem
14 November 1995

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,