Out of this world
As far as we’re concerned
This story of the Lord
The mountainside
For we live down below
We do not know up there
There the air is rarefied
Most folk couldn’t care
And the Lord was put to death in the end
No song and dance about a rising then
But Peter is our witness
On mountain and at tomb
What he saw and heard
He witnessed to
And I would trust his word
I’ve stood upon a mountaintop
And viewed the world below
Its loveliness its beauty and its show
I went when I was lonely
The beauty calmed my soul
It promises a heaven
And heaven is the goal
Brian Fahy
4 March 2023
Erris Poetry 