Of the many things
That must make
The kind angels weep
Perhaps the foremost
Is the memory of how
A non-violent, egalitarian
Jewish prophet
Was converted, or transformed,
Into a divine and immortal
Roman emperor.
Jerusalem 1 December 2019
Jerusalem 1 December 2019
How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And
Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and