To South American Protestant Converts

Michael Peach

Your faith was spawned, naïve amigos,
By folk with blind, distorted egos,
Who literalize symbolic tracts
And take prophetic tropes for facts.

Jerusalem
14 October 1999

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,