How good is Good Friday, to the people of Jerusalem? <br />The politics, terrorists, victims, fanatics, <br />Goliath appears to be all but one of them. <br />And David, throwing stones without a sling, what good will come about? <br />As you raise your outlawed flag and express your political slogans. <br />Against the shadow of police-state terror, <br />What change will that bring? <br />Even when you clenched your fist and shouted to define your sovereignty, <br />After all you didn’t the war of ’67, <br />But now you take the loss. <br />How good will Good Saturday be? For in fact how joyous will be Easter? <br />Will peace come as more lives become the coast? <br />Oh Jerusalem have your people learned at all? <br />Sticks and stones may some bones but Uzis always kill, <br />But as David rose against the mighty Philistine <br />And used his rock in a sling, <br />So will the new David eventually triumph. <br />As in the testament of old, <br />It’s only a matter of time when a stone is replaces by an AK-47, <br />And Jerusalem will become a hell, <br />-when it should be a terrestrial heaven. <br /> <br />(4-1988)<br /><br />Joe Rosochacki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/good-friday-1988/
