Luke 11:24-26
Sinaga in central Manchester
Saville everywhere
Priests in France through seventy years
Abused those in their care
The Boston Globe
Through Spotlight
Revealed a frightening truth
Abusive clergy everywhere
Abusing innocent youth
Crimes and monstrous passions
Shock us to the core
We distance from such actions
Behaviour we abhor
And yet we know
The quiet truth
The weakness of the flesh
Temptation to self-indulgence
Lust can rot the best
The Lord’s advice is here today
When an unclean spirit leaves
Do not hang out the ‘vacant’ sign
A ‘gimme’ sign to thieves
Fill your heart with goodness
Tidy your house each day
Let the Lord reside with you
To keep all harm away
Brian Fahy
8 October 2021
Erris Poetry 