Promised land

Shit is that our promised land over there

No surely not thats blot on a world map that fares

So badly in peace terms surely my vision fails

How can that be holy with all the blood that assails

My senses surely I’m looking through splintered lenses

That can’t be right

Two Semitic peoples attacking their own defenceless

In senseless needless silence a feel a loss

Which no moment amount of shining media sheen can gloss

Over bodies dropping like when autumn leaves begin to fall

And it shoddy when we’re all just nodding at the Wailing Wall

So words fail me but that of the greatest wailer should do

Feel the power of positive vibration that can flow thru,

your veins, & don’t feign that you can’t see the tree of life withering

When you’re getting down & quarrelling every day I’m envisioning

A schism, like a valley growing wider

As the glacier drives the icy feelings deeper the divide us

But glance a second at what sits across the negotiating table

& if you’re able remember peace is no fable

Nor a foible in all my lucid dreams

Surely we’re here to Tikkun Olam isn’t that what covenant means?

Shit, is that our promised land over there

So why can’t we promise in this land not to fight as other nations stare

So I’m sick of egos with inflation levels like Zimbabwe

& I’m tired of empty gestures

Like taking away old empire titles from Mugabe,

So why isn’t love in our repertoire

Rather the hearts of these men look like the inside of an abattoir

But so far I’m not better, no go getter

No jet setter I just attempt to spit my spiritual vibes

The chime & vibrate in harmony when I hear the peace cries

So a part of me dies at the demise of ceasefires

And I eat, sleep, drink that desire

That one day we will share the promised land together.