There must be a way

to hold the world to ransom

through the medium of peace

rather than allowing the distance

between us,

between ideology,

between deeply engrained and terrible dogmatic belief;

which allows the spread of fear and suspicion

in all things in the name of national blanket

security

and the wrath of your god.

 

I dreamed once, half asleep, caravan dust in my eye

the bed clothes strewn

to all corners of the narrow bed and leaving me

cold and naked,