Luke 12:1-7
To lose your life to violence
Is tragedy enough
But to sell your soul to the devil
So much worse
Think of Adolf Hitler
And Himmler and the rest
By proposing to themselves an enemy
They justified to themselves
The terror and the havoc
They wrought on others’ lives
The story of that war
Hangs over us still
We never should forget
Our capacity for ill
And yet it’s not the final word
The Lord gives us today
But an image of his father’s love
Remember it I pray
God sees all the sparrows
He knows their span of days
The hairs of your head are counted
An image to amaze
To think God knows you through and through
With love so intimate
Let that inspire the life you live
There is no better fate
Brian Fahy
14 October 2022
Erris Poetry 