Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy by Neil Astley

Author:Neil Astley [Neil Astley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781780370422
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2012-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

MICHAEL LONGLEY

The Red and the Black

We sat up late, talking –

thinking of the screams of the tortured

and the last silence of starving children,

seeing the faces of bigots and murderers.

Then sleep.

And there was the morning, smiling

in the dance of everything. The collared doves

guzzled the rowan berries and the sea

washed in, so gently, so tenderly.

Our neighbours greeted us

with humour and friendliness.

World, why do you do this to us,

giving us poison with one hand

and the bread of life with another?

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