My mother’s love
My father’s honest way
Planted me in happiness
From my earliest day
Two sisters and a brother
A collie dog as well
A happy home a dwelling place
A heaven against all hell
The condition of our upbringing
Determines what will be
How we grow and how we feel
Happy to be me
But where neglect or poverty
Raise their ugly head
There you’ll find that misery
Has taken root instead
The troubles in our early life
Cause us to run away
From opening our heart
To the sunshine of the day
The shadows of a lonely life
Cause us to hide in pain
Until the warmth approaches us
Inviting love come in
Brian Fahy
20 July 2022
+ Jesus’ parable about the sower and the seed is a true and accurate description of human development. Just as we put on our clothes to face the day, so we also put on our personality, our mode of facing other people, our coping mechanism for life. We hide our hurts from others and try to be ‘presentable’ to one another. Sometimes our true self is well hidden beneath layers of outward behaviours, which are our way of coping with the world.
We all deserve to be planted in good soil. Alas, for many people that just does not happen.
Erris Poetry 