He was going to put the world to rights
His world
The way he saw it
He’d studied scripture knew tradition
The upstarts won’t redraw it
And so he took Damascus Road
Warrants in his hand
Arrest and persecute them all
Their movement will not stand
We put the world to rights
We do
When sitting in a pub
But wrongs are never far away
And therein lies the rub
We have to live as this world is
Not as we would like it
And persecuting others is
A foolish game so strike it
Northern Ireland
Lets us see
The foolishness of conflict
So many died their memory
Cries out for intellect
Fall to your knees
Who are you Lord?
The best the only question
And in the silence of the heart
Resolve to be your best one
Brian Fahy
6 May 2022
+ The story of Saul who became Paul teaches us powerful lessons about the futility of violence, the short-sightedness of biased thinking, the dangers of partiality and the beauty of new sight that is given in God’s grace.
Erris Poetry 