Help me Lord to follow you today
In everything I think and do and say
You’d think I’d know by now
The road laid out the vow
Every morning start again I pray
Van Der Valk the TV show policeman
Brought to mind a wise man from the past
Spinoza is the name
Of philosophical fame
His words are with us words that truly last
He lived a good and saintly life we’re told
And that’s important as the words you’re sold
A good and honest thinker
His quotes still here they linger
They bring us warmth and keep us from the cold
‘Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand’
This will bring our life under command
‘We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal’
A divine implant of our life the kernel
Baruch Spinoza light of the Netherlands
Brian Fahy
8 August 2022
Erris Poetry 