Alba
Wrapped in sky and heathered hills
caressed by briny horses wild,
so far from dark satanic mills
survives the empire's favoured child.
Once stripped and starved of tongue and god
its people slaved and banished cold,
crofts and mànas razed to sod
that none who dwelled there might grow old.
But land in time calls back its own
disgorging tyrants, killing kings,
and those returning hold what's known
that those who stole could never bring.
This place so loved by earth and man
too much that any heart could own,
will never bow to scheme or plan
that was not on its own shores grown.
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David RL Moore
Thu 28th Nov 2024 07:45
Thanks for the likes RBK and Uilleam.
Here I am again romanticizing the old country. It's a dodgy path to walk between ideas of things and the reality of them.
That said, this poem started out in praise of the land and somehow morphed into historic grievance. This is something I'm wary of. I believe we should remember our past and hold it somehow sacred, but that we should also look to the future with open minds, free of blame.
David