A Martyrs Prayer

As I stand on your Earth below
I beseech thee in prayer to make it so
That if I die in a foreign land, or
Be it by my brothers hand.
Take me back, so I may lay
With the hope to rise another day.

When Judgement comes, and
My body Thou raise
Free me, Lord. So I may gaze
So, in death, if not life
I may see
Ireland, Dear Ireland
Forever free.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: A poster I saw in Lisburn, outside Belfast: "Free Occupied Ireland! For Unoccupied Ireland Please Ring Land Agent." It was light humour in 1986 if you were there where humour was the only thing that kept you from going insane. Cheers, Eoghan

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Country/Region: ME

Favorite Poets: I try not to restrict myself, but if I had to name., Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Allen Ginsberg whom I was fortunate enough to meet before he died, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilfred Owen, William Words worth, and a street poet I met in Bangor, ME called Geo

Comments

Lamington

3 years 10 months ago

Forever free?

When was Ireland ever "free"?

Not for many a century.

Eoghan

3 years 10 months ago

Did you get the poem at all?

Did you get the poem at all? I can take commentary, but cynicism? No, Ireland has never been truly at peace and reunification still seems a long way off, if ever, that was what was implied in the poem. It implied that it may only be free after Judgement Day.

Lamington

3 years 10 months ago

"Get it"???

What is there "to get"??? How is my comment in any way cynical? It's an observation, nay, a sad statement of fact. However, thanks to the stupidity of Brexit, Ireland is getting nearer each month to reunification. Which is the only good thing to come out of Brexit.

I have no idea what "Judgement Day" might or might not be. Nor do I care.

Best wishes

Jackweb

3 years 10 months ago

This verse is typically

This verse is typically emotional. It spreads goosebumps in my skins.
I felt it.

scribbler

3 years 10 months ago

well

I "get it" . There are a few things I'd change were I the author but they would have only made the poem different not better