Seeing or Believing?

by T.P. Wilkinson / September 20th, 2015

Do you have
to see
a horn
to hear it blowing
Do you have
to see
the sun
to know its warming
Do you have
to touch
the head
to sense it thinking
Do you have
to touch
the heart
to find it loving
Then why
do you have
to feel
the lead
to find it killing
and why
do you have
to see
the bombs
to know we’re dying?

Dr T.P. Wilkinson writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, September 20th, 2015 at 8:04am and is filed under Poetry.