Poem Of The Month: September 2011

IRISH HUNGER

There’s a great hunger

Bred in our bones

Hunger for freedom

For eight hundred years

Hunger for food

In the Famine

Hunger for peace

In the Troubles

Hunger for money

When we were poor

Hunger for comfort

In Celtic Tiger times

Hunger for justice

When some priests let us down

Hunger for accountability

When bankers sold our sovereignty

And hunger for leaders

To bring it all home.