But the financiers will ask
In that day: IS it not better
To leave broken bank balances
Behind than broken heads?
And Christ recognizing the
New warriors will feel breaching
His healed side their terrible
Pencil and the haemorrhage of its figures.
(R S Thomas)
More Poetry from R S Thomas:
- Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man (R S Thomas Poems)
- A Welsh Testament (R S Thomas Poems)
- Welsh Landscape (R S Thomas Poems)
- Welsh History (R S Thomas Poems)
- The Face (R S Thomas Poems)
- A Peasant (R S Thomas Poems)