This long goodbye
Befits the Queen’s long reign
(Long to reign over us)
All these years
A lifetime
She the same
Yet change she saw
As all of us see change
Now a fixture’s gone
What will remain?
No looking back
We need a forward march
Youth must have its day
A forward arch
Too long that old Britannia
Ruled the waves
Now younger blood must come
And Britain save
We need a revolution
In our minds
And in our hearts
Resolution to be kind
Stop praising self
For glories never real
And love our neighbour (enemy)
The truest stamp and seal
Brian Fahy
16 September 2022
Erris Poetry 