The Future

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My haiku don't usually obey the 5/7/5 syllable rule but today I conform

THE FUTURE

Praising a new dawn?

Or mourning the death of life?

They are in our hands.

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MY SOLUTION!

(A Fantasy)

Jews and Arabs, like all of us, are brothers under the skin,

So why on earth is Jerusalem in the awful state it's in?

I'm an Agnostic, I don't care who owns the 'holy' city,

But, certainly, all this wrangling is very far from pretty!

I have a little fantasy that I could put things right

And the future of the Middle East could again be shiny bright!

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I don't look like a Terrorist; I'm elderly and grey,

I'm a female Anglo-Saxon and I don't even pray!

What if I went as a tourist, so innocent-looking, me!

But I went intent on blowing-up every monument I could see.

What if I could wreak destruction on a truly massive scale

And then escape on the next plane not leaving any trail?

What would they have to fight about? They'd have to co-exist

As they cleared-up the rubble, using hand instead of fist!

And, in time, the lovely grass would grow, as depicted up above,

And Arab and Jew would settle down in a City of Brotherly Love!

Of course, it's just a fantasy. Instead, my friends, I fear

The wrangling will go on and on year after year after year!

I'll never see it settled. I'm much to old for that,

But I'm a cross old Granny saying

'What are you playing at?'

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