A message written on a wall
‘Monica, I love you’
Survived the years of darkness
Prison cell
The writer tortured disappeared
How we will never know
But the words he wrote are living yet
With love it is ever so
A massacre in Derbyshire
Too awful to relate
A mother and three children
A man so filled with hate
We hardly know the horrors
That happen in our world
But viciousness is everywhere
Is God so very cold?
I only know the story
That began on Christmas night
A child is born to save us
And put enmity to flight
They crucified him for it
A cradle led to cross
And we can follow every day
And redeem what seems so lost
Brian Fahy
22 December 2022
Erris Poetry 