JERUSALEM

if this is Jerudalem
why do the stones not speak
the very walls sing hossanas?

why does God who owns
both symbolic rights and
ultimate reals estate

command his worshippers
to share, unite,

not flow into that darkness
of which there are no words,
solely mystery

as one continual, endless stream
whose only form and shape
and sense
is blood?

Published by Damian Garside