Re-Generation Ireland

Tired and headsore
You wait and stare wearily at the door,
For some stranger creaking up the stairs,
Another mother peddling wares
In new apartments by the quays.
Driven to slavery by dropping fees
She’s thirty-eight, a mother of three;
Poverty, inequality- chained by criminals free.
—–
Bruised and broken,
Your wheelchair and medal scant token
Of governmental gratitude for duty done,
While they steal the future [...]

Awake ye people of Ireland’s Ire!
Be slave and soldiers no more
To a Destiny so dire
It drives our knees to the floor!
Arise Ye Dreamers of Eire’s might!
Time now to frame anew,
A society egalité worth this pain and fight,
An Island fair and true!
Amass Ye Workers and Worked!
Sound your tools on Future’s Doors,
Beat them down where corruption lurked
And [...]

I will sail across this wild ocean of emotion
And nail my colours to the mast,
Cry defiance to the storm
As I chase her to the last.

She contains the sapphires of the seam
Her holds brim with jasmine oil
And she bears the flag of the free.
Oh, the thought of her lost makes me boil!

I blame the Captain that [...]