Cup Final

by T.P. Wilkinson / June 9th, 2019

sacrifice
artifice
worship
warship
avarice
left
the vineyard
shown the way
by a pistol
on lanyard
by a sword
on the day
eyes raised to heaven
no yeast for the leaven
broiled not baked
by the setting sun.
A cup not renounced
obedience paid
A final life forfeited
for a festival played.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. 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, June 9th, 2019 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.