Today is the day that I was born
Many years ago
The world recovering from war
Winter of the snow
The evil and the madness
Berlin bunker bombed
Cold war just beginning
Europe still entombed
All those years have passed us by
Russia still not free
Communism’s wickedness
Capitalism’s glee
We must deal with people as they are
Not how we wish them to be
We cannot sort out everything
But I can begin with me
The greatest gift that I received
My family and my faith
The community of childhood days
My friends my school my church
Then I wandered far off course
Taken from my home
But I found the path in adult years
Now Stirling is my home
Brian Fahy
15 January 2023
Erris Poetry 