Couldn’t believe my eyes today
That senator I see
With family holding rifles
Around the Christmas tree
All beaming smiling faces
I am sure you will agree
But what gives with the rifles?
Dearie dearie me
I do not know America
So do not understand
Why bearing arms seems vital
In that ginormous massive land
A hundred killings every day
I am given to understand
But that translates to two a day
In tiny UK land
And films I see on Netflix
Are violence and guns
And justice amounts to vengeance
On baddies and on Huns
And daily papers over here
Say ‘throw away the key’
When locking up child killers
Where is the hanging tree?
Our fight against disease and such
Nurses doctors all
We nobly fight pandemic now
Obey the siren call
But spiritual health is waning
And soon will come the storm
All children need our loving now
This is no false alarm
We said goodbye to worlds at war
We wasted lives so true
And now another form of war
Is attacking me and you
The unseen war the Internet
That ruins all around
Pornography greed and robbery
Disturb the solid ground
In England broken monasteries
Stand on holy ground
Reminding us of former days
And power’s ugly sound
We cannot go on living
As if there’s not a care
Stand up each day for all that’s good
The Lord says ‘be aware’
Brian Fahy
6 December 2021
Erris Poetry 