Have you heard of Beaufort’s Dyke?
It’s new to me
A deep ravine beneath the Irish Sea
A thousand feet and two miles wide
Thirty miles long a great divide
Between Galloway and the Northern Ireland coast
It is also a munitions dump
Millions of tons of military stuff
Chemical and radioactive mind
All the sorry stuff of war
Dumped down there where no one saw
A great divide a landfill in the sea
And Boris talks about a bridge
To cross this quiet unknown ridge
And talks of making greater unity
But the people on this side you know
Are waiting for Ulster to up and go
A united Ireland that would set us free
And the folks just north of Hadrian’s Wall
Are waiting on the day
When Scottish Independence is the style
And England left to Tory rule
Can sort itself it is no fool
And Beaufort’s Dyke can sleep on for a while
Brian Fahy
17 September 2021
Erris Poetry 