GEORGE BLAKE AT 90

In the complexity
of the cold war
with sex and a shower
and a vodka drink
what is life for
if there is no sin
or higher power
to worship Him,
you met "The Five"
Guy,Andy, Antony
Don,Kim
and were jet sent
as a K.G.B. agent,
who knows your heart
you played your part
like the dramatist Marlowe
as history will show,
even in Wormwood
Scrubbs prison
you were sanguine
and in the know
risen over the walls
and forward onto Berlin,
with a Russian gold medal
on your bare chest
you had a reason
to rest from your labors
and to later peddle
the story of your life
denying you were
a traitor to the West,
"The Five" were gentlemen
as your history survives
and you are buried
with your own glory's reward
wearing an Oxford tweed vest.