Yesterday ‘s a lovely place to visit
Provided you don’t stay there all the time
Like Kiltane church by the Owenmore what is it
That draws me back to claim it and its clime
Larkin’s poem ‘Church Going’ how I love it
That thud shut door closing him inside
The stone floor and every thing he sees above it
Cause him to wonder his thoughts he does not hide
And I went back to yesterday this morning
Remembering old times the way I came
But today is calling too a brand new dawning
Thank God for it nothing stays the same
We live in flowing time we must keep swimming
The people of the past no longer there
Look ahead if you would be winning
They are ahead of us we wonder where
Old albums that I have no longer draw me
They’ll be history books for grandsons then to read
It’s today and tomorrow occupy me
Food for body and food for soul I need
Today is what we have and it is fleeting
We’ll say goodbye and let it slip away
But not ourselves our lives are made for meeting
And love – it will abide it’s here to stay
Brian Fahy
10 February 2022
Erris Poetry 