WHERE THE BATTLE RAGES

 YOU DON'T KNOW ME   You don't know me Though once you did  Knew me best of all Knew me inside out  And upside down All my thoughts And all my moods Knew me better  Than I know myself  Now I'm just a face  A puzzle and a chore  Save for glints  A fleeting smile When you half guess At who I might have been  You don't know me  But I know you And that's all right  I'll know for us both

THE ONLY DAY All across the subdued hills Falls a breathless pall As our crude flesh is hallowed In blood and afterbirth    Nature shrinks from Otherness  The base before the Royal  As God's umbilical cord is cut  And Yahweh laid in hay  The Creator is created!  The squirming, wrinkled Lord!    High Heaven has been humbled Omnipotence in clay  Hail this the trembling Day of Days! Hail this most momentous Day!  Hail this, the one and only Day There has ever really been

IF   NOBODY SEES      So many, say you?  Well, nobody sees Behind those doors   In labs agleam 'Blob' in, 'waste' out Where nobody sees  With white-coats and smiles And biscuits and tea And nary a soul there So nobody sees   We've hidden our work Where no eye can pry  And isn't it OK   If nobody sees?