I still remember the laughter of Doireann Fox Or the way Macken undid all the locks The way the hills just cascade With the joy of the girl they’ve saved And I got full high on the scene But I was kicking it with a wonder dream As everything is fluorescent light The vibrant colours to ignite What I saw in a storm And when the air is heavy you get warm But it’s too close in stifling heat The crack of lightning at my feet The year Deirdre broke my heart Took everything, tore it apart And left me reeling for an age So I took refuge on the page As I transcribed a degree of hell Like Taylor Swift and All Too Well In monuments to that time I collapsed and all was fine So I woke up to the day The light within that cannot stay Coz it can’t go anywhere The sheet of me that it tear Until I grow to realise What is behind each pair of eyes And Ciara is a steady hand She looks at me and I am grand Coz she so deeply understand The winter that I had not planned Or Sinéad in rocks and stone With her I am not alone As she regaled what was said It’s all just torment in my head The firing cinders, the blistering heat The feeling that I cannot meet Even one more day of time Then I blinked out of what was mine And into a sunshine that will brew It all reflects the heart of you Into ever deepening soul The school of cool as the waves roll