I watched the film Shadowlands again
It makes me cry because the story’s mine
I was the academic cocooned well from the world
Margaret the lass whose love my heart had stirred
Like Lewis I was slow to realise
How much I needed her be by her side
She read me like Debra Winger in the film
And patiently she waited the turning of the tide
Younger too and suddenly not well
We braved the tests and hospital to tell
A rare disease afflicted her both lungs
A transplant needed or there won’t be long
We made our life together that’s the joy
And shared in Michael our precious precious boy
Too soon I lost her what am I to do?
Alone and lost and illness came
Came depression too
And then a resurrection
I love you, girl, I do
Brian Fahy
30 December 2021
+ In the film Joy Davidman helped C S Lewis to face the truth of her approaching death and not to ignore it. ‘The pain then is part of the happiness now,’ she told him. It is important to learn to embrace all of our life.
Erris Poetry 