The Kingdom of Hell (2)

Michael Peach

The Kingdom of Terrestrial Hell
Began to form when Adam fell;
Unless from will to power we turn,
We’ll see what’s left of Eden burn.

Jerusalem
1 December 1999

If I again could walk, For peace I’d use my

The milk and cream of human kindness ease The bullish

Despite the ATVs and motorbikes That shake my fragile balance

Like all the kindest men’s in history, Will’s anima was

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How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And