The tragedy of being Irish and free Is now I have to watch them being ripped from me And we fought the British for so long Because they tried to stifle our song Only to realise That we were born under rainy skies And the famine and the genocide As my family dies And I stand at the grave And think of all the people the fight could not save As we all hold the weight Of some kind of inflicted hate That still lives in our bones and blood And they think they are good For daring to trying to quench the light Of the good fight For growing up on the grass so green Celtic and inbetween This world and the next And the Spanish were shipwrecked And now their bloodlines are descended We are a conglomeration that has amended The phrase níos Gaelaí ná Gaeil iad féin And there’s something I love about the rain And touching down after Arizona My God, how I wish I could phone ya After our magnificent fight The one that set the devil alight And he tries to burn me in St. Pat’s As the people put out their welcome mats To tell me to come home And that it’s okay I’m alone But I just feel the shaking of the trees And the death that’s always on the breeze When you grow up under the sky Of the memory that cannot lie
The darkness of the night is very near And it was an education in fear When they taught me about the man in black And that I must be wary of an attack I still remember the moment it made an impact Cut to the future and I jacked When I saw that same abyss again And instead of a god, it was men And I ran and ran Because only the truth can Catch up to me And the scenery is no match for me As I turn a blind eye On what it is to die In the midnight of the day And they tell me it’s okay I ask the doctor if the devil is real Because hell is sure what I feel When I’m looking in the mirror And I barely hear her When she say that she don’t know She says she’ll help me though And she’s from India so I trust in where this is gonna go
It’s either a famine or a feast So say the ones who have deceased And left us with their words And I may be away with the birds But I still have something left to impart Because that holy dart Struck me straight into the heart And said stand up and speak The one who says to the weak Or the cripple to walk I’ve been silent but now I talk And my voice is resonant With a power that’s heaven sent As the Christ makes Himself known In the garden that has grown In the absence of stares And somebody cares About who you are And every star That ever was must burn So why did my sky take a turn To spin around the sun I think I know the only One That will ever come to reside In the heart where love abide As I give the King his reign Please don’t ask me to do that again But if you do I will consent And acquiesce to your request To be the tower in the shade It’s something I cannot evade As I spill secrets to my GP And she looks back at me With frightened eyes My disguise Has grown thin Since I revealed myself to him And I can no longer lie by omission Or sell myself for a commission But bullet reverberate around my soul Leaving me riddled with holes Like the pillars of the GPO Who are the British in this, do you know?
Looking for salvation in the stars It’s like trying to round some prison bars As they, adjacent, keep a defense Til you’re hands and knees in the present tense And do I confess My wilderness and impress Some secret subtlety afar Oh, the world, how near you are When you just take a glance At the vulnerable in my stance And I wish away Tomorrow another yesterday Don’t you see That you were the ocean to me And the sea at night Oh, how it glitters in the moonlight To reflect your face Now forever is without a trace Gone from these hands I’m on the shore just pacing sand As you glide effortlessly along another terrain Have all my past lives been in vain To bring me to this A pair of lips that death might kiss Someday or will The power of life to kill All that it breathes air into And consciousness is quintessentially you So you can’t lose it But did I choose it This marching band There’s nothing I have really planned Coz all falls away And what you leave til another day Gets left behind They say I am out of my mind But I think they’re wrong I’m too deep in it and that’s my song Can I hold the tune I did when you walked in the room And my heart hammered against my chest The depth of wisdom that I invest In you to be all you claim Now it’s been years and you’re just a name I click into Tell me did I ever reach you Or was it all just empty talk The way you hold yourself when you walk Like you’ve been punched Something hits you and I can feel the crunch As you double over side to side But hell if I know you’re still alive And kicking me somewhere under the seat Why did heaven have us meet If it was just to part And you are the king of my heart
I knock but there’s no answer And I’ve done my time being a dancer Spinning the spools of infinitesimal thread Into a daydream in my head And I may be deluded, I may be wrong But this love thing is so damn strong As I feel it pulse in my chest Weighing up who I love the best But it flits around to varying beings Changes with the landscape I’m seeing An intimacy I cannot describe I just thank God I’m alive To experience all of this It was Truth like a first kiss As I wake up to what I am And all that moves without a plan
The Poetry Book 