Here no anonymity
Everyone knows your name
A sprinkling of islands
Off Norway’s western main
And northerly from Thurso
A hundred miles or so
The land of D I Perez
The hero of the show
The sea provides containment
A bloody painting’s frame
Though some escape in early mist
Perez will bring them hame
Relationships are powerful
The long hurt look remains
And sorrows sing their endless song
Of human hearts in pain
All lives have their locality
Familiar roads and lanes
Except upon the mainland
Anonymity’s domain
We love familiar faces
We see upon the screen
Perez and Tosh will comfort us
In this world of might have been
Brian Fahy
23 October 2021
+ Shetland is a popular detective series on television, based on the books of Anne Cleeves, and staring Douglas Henshall and Alison O’Donnell.
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