God is good so we are told
And his love lasts forever
But life in this world can be cold
So cold our faith to sever
The Railway Killers I watched last night
Cruel attacks on women
Young girls pounced on fearsome sight
Calculated vicious sinning
So many lives are brutalised
So many hearts are broken
Such innocents are victimised
Forgotten names not spoken
Think of all the murdered dead
Unjustly lives are ended
And God is good so you have said
How can this be defended?
I have no words I do not try
The Lord instead my teacher
Whose cruel death still mystifies
The pagan and the preacher
All will be well so we are told
For death has been defeated
The love of God a love untold
In Jesus resurrected
See the marks the soldiers made
The wounds in hand and side
Trust in me be not afraid
There comes a peaceful tide
Brian Fahy
18 August 2021
Erris Poetry 