When Bobby Sands died

We cried

We were filled with sorrow

And yet

We didn’t lose heart.

It seemed

As though all his

Fearless courage

Was poured into our frightened hearts

Filling us with

His imagination

His vision.

 His, no longer, quiet dreams

Exploded in our mind

Freeing us from our fears.

The shackles were off!

We could not back down

Nor forget

Then, as each man died,

in his turn, inspiring his own people

and a world that learned

it is never easy

to tell the truth against lies nor

to live the truth in nakedness and defy

the lie dressed up by Officialdom!