Today I’d say is as lovely as it gets
A bright November day
Last night the night was cold
This morning sunshine bright
Sky of blue no breath of wind
Not a cloud in sight
Dumyat and the Ochils
Stand clear against the sky
I climbed it once with Margaret
And Michael – he grumbled ‘why’
The River Forth is fordable
It’s here they built the town
And on a volcanic stump
A castle looking down
It’s a tidy size is Stirling
Villages around
Horizon shows the highland line
A ridge of higher ground
It’s here I found my resting place
My home my family
I couldn’t ask for better
A lovely place to be
I thought I’d be with Margaret
Until the end of days
But illness came and Margaret gone
I enter another phase
We cannot plan our way of life
We can only walk the road
And try our best to walk it well
I am grateful for my abode
These words I write it’s what I do
My days of work are done
I’ll keep on writing thinking
Until the set of sun
Brian Fahy
4 November 2021
Erris Poetry 