Monday 25 August 2014

EGYPT

Shame flashes briefly 

In my brain
Flickering flame 

Pain
People, place

Memory

Hurt
Degraded
Broken

Egypt 
State of slavery
Wants to take me 

Back

But I will not go 
From here now 
To then again

I will not surrender
The promise

In which I abide
By Grace

Tuesday 19 August 2014

DEPARTURE




I did not want  
To have the last 

Word

Fall flat
In an unknowing

Silence

A response
Would have been
Welcome

Years of labour
Shared
Sweated stress

Nothing remained
But departure

Dust shaken 
From feet

Facing freedom
On my own



Saturday 9 August 2014

To Stand Alone Again





I kneel at her feet
In Persona Christi
Bathing them in prayer

That she might stand
Again just once
And learn to walk
All over

Two of us propping
Her up until she
Is able to stand alone

She might even look
Forward to a slim hope

We could go to Wexford
And stay a night
In a place looking over
The harbour

And set our dreams abroad
On the parting ships of dawn
Daydreaming every possibility

The light of it shining
In her ancient eyes
And smiling



Loveless Is The Bed



Change the sea 
From blue to brown

Paint the moon
Blood red

Blackened
Is the bridal gown

Loveless
Is the bed

Where she lays
Dead