You have to live with yourself
You are your own companion every day
Sometimes we are not nice to know
Sometimes we’d rather flee and go
Where nobody knows the truth
And stay away
But truth is always there
No matter what you do
Someday you must go home to self
You have to live with you
And if your heart is darkness
And you can find no light
Better to talk to someone
Someone to share your plight
The word of God invites us home
Read it every day
Live in the presence of the Lord
Listen to what he’ll say
Anyone who commits a sin
That person is not free
Better to confess the wrong we do
And live life verily
Brian Fahy
29 March 2023
+ A Norwegian girl, Martine Vik Magnussen, was cruelly murdered in London in 2008. The only suspect, Farouq Abdulhak, fled to Yemen and has remained there out of the reach of the Law. Interviewed by a journalist, he has come as near as he can to being open about what happened on that fateful night, but locked away in his house, alone and not willing to talk openly, he lives the burdened life for what he has done.
Erris Poetry 