{"id":324,"date":"2007-03-04T16:13:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2007\/03\/04\/enantiodromia-1\/"},"modified":"2014-06-21T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T13:44:39","slug":"enantiodromia-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/enantiodromia-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Enantiodromia (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

("running contrariwise")<\/p>\n

When a charismatic TV preacher
Of family values and Christian faith
Is seen in bed with his daughter’s friend;
When an exiled poet, a former pacifist,
With sword in hand returns to plunge
His liberated country into civil strife;
When the divided post-Soviet nations,
Sick to death of anarchy and terror,
Resurrect the Russian Empire;
When the citizens of Western Europe,
Unified by single currency and law,
Form into warring fascist tribes;
When a people that for centuries bore
The cruel blows of persecution
In turn oppresses another race;
When a chaotic and Godless world
As if by blind compulsion drifts
Into the sphere of theocratic rule –
Then like Heraclitus one must conclude
That all extremes become in time
Their diametric opposite.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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Jerusalem
2 February 1992
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