Today is ‘dreich’
The Scots express it well
Dark and dreary
Drizzle from the sky
A greyness over everything
Dank and damp and dour
Enough to make you wonder
What’s the point and why
And life can be like that
The news forever grim
Corruption in high places
Everywhere just sin
Famine in Afghanistan
Poverty and pain
Migrants in the channel
Hoping life to gain
Light a candle in the dark
The wisdom for today
Do not curse the darkness
That only makes it stay
And do not make God’s Spirit sad
The words of Paul resound
Let your life be light again
Make this holy ground
Brian Fahy
8 November 2021
Erris Poetry 