8th April 2018

Wednesday marked 50 years since Martin Luther King Jnr was shot in Memphis, whilst shouting out the need for freedom to live without persecution. Elsewhere, whilst the leaders of Qatar and Bahrain were telling the world that Israel had a right to their own land, others continued their fight to eradicate Israel completely or to propagate yet again that insidious trope, anti-semitism. In the ‘peaceful’ West, the French were on the march again against President Macron’s attempts to modernise France’s obsolete working practices. They don’t realise how lucky they are. I wrote the following poem some time ago, which I think Martin Luther King would have liked:
At early ‘morn I had a dream
that man would cease his evil scheme
Blazing battles, suicide missions
Murder, hatred, crazed seditions
Plumb the depths, re-appraise
Be none so blind, none so fazed
Halt the fight, tribe v tribe
suffused with hate, with diatribe
But see with eyes afresh from birth
We’re all one tribe - that of Earth!