Poetry

Monday 4 November 2024

Love thy neighbour

 It's like a war between us

The body counts are high both sides

And blow for blow

We were friends now foes

We take an eye for an eye


But I am not looking

Though I seem to see

The Victory flag raised in field

That separates  you from me


You have won the battle

But I have won the war

When all your sacred cattle

go walking out the door


Separate signs and diversions

And symbols in the dust

That come of steely incursions

In the hour our swords cross


Give me all your versions

Of your truth I know are lies

And I shall hold them in my hands

And hold them up to rainy skies


Let them fall between my fingers

Let them turn into the mist

For only that now lingers

When I remember how we kissed

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