Everybody hurts
Says the song
It’s true enough
Be life short or long
Mantel lost her father
Then she lost her health
Cannot now have children
That joy that bliss that wealth
The time of Reformation
Everybody hurts
Hunting down the heretics
Burning innocents
Ever since the argument
Who is right or wrong?
Catholic or Protestant
Will someone change the song!
Jesus lived a life of joy
Yet knew that death would come
And tried to warn his followers
To add this to the sum
Everyone will feel some pain
Sorrow will come too
But faith and hope and honest love
Will all our strength renew
Brian Fahy
24 September 2022
+ Hilary Mantel’s personal life had its fair share of trouble and personal sadness. Her writings in her historical trilogy about the Tudor reformation show us the hurts and harms inflicted on everyone who lived through that time. We still argue the rights and wrongs of it all. Mark Twain tells us it is better to be kind than to be right, for in being kind we will always be right.
The Lord lived his life knowing full well what would happen to him, but he was not a miserable person. His truthfulness and his honesty and his kindness were the mark of his life. Our lives too know their sorrows and their pain. But we must not allow that to dictate life to us. We rise again.
Erris Poetry 