Brian is good with words
That’s what she said
Maggie said
And I heard
After she was dead
And that was like
A match to light a flame
It’s burning still
I know no other game
I used to speak the word
A preacher I
Loved that too
To reach the heart
I’d try
And one to one
Confessional converse hold
The secrets of another’s heart
Be told
So now today
My biro marks the page
And every day
I’ll write
Yes at my age
For I am good with words
So I’ve been told
Margaret said those words
So I’ll be bold
Brian Fahy
17 September 2022
+ My Margaret died on 19th September 2012, so we are approaching the 10th anniversary now. Indeed the day of the Queen’s funeral will be that day. A conversation she had in the glen, Glencullen, my mother’s home place, a few weeks before she died was with Anne Carey, my cousin, Michael’s wife. Anne wrote to me in the days after Margaret’s funeral and she told me what Margaret had said. ‘Brian is very good with words.’ Hearing those words, as it were coming from the grave, have spurred me on, and given me confidence to persevere in writing up to this day. Sometimes we need to hear someone else tell us things about our self, if we are to have the courage to believe them.
Erris Poetry 