Alien feet
Recent suggestions by an English academic that Christ visited ancient Britain, discussed and learnt from, amongst others, Druids, prompted this little ditty.
Memo to:
Re: Dark skins, funny names
From: Island race mongrels
and did those
feet
yes I know
I’ve heard it
thousands
of times
massed choirs
chorus voiced
proud
sang it myself
in school
shiver
down the spine
hearts
bulged by being
chosen
as different
their land
was it really?
when?
eons ago
walked upon
sandal footed
sure
a belief
all parties
love it
to seize it as their own
Jerusalem!
cradle of our
holy
civilisation
wholly alien
dark
skinned
middle eastern
wandered Africa?
rapacious foreigner
we sing of him
in joy
gifted
honoured
the name of
Holy Ghost
son of
cymbals crash
in bands
bald northern folk
ruddy faced, fat
southerners
complacent
hear them sing
uplifted
full throated
foreign feet
green and pleasant
land
upon our shores
sure of the welcome
a seeker?
of truth?
spiritual enlightenment
peace
haven from
thoughts that would
kill
you
you knew
you did go back
and were
crucified
(temporary)
stranger
alien in our
green and pleasant
land
