ON GOOD FRIDAY

Too much oscillation
for conviction

too much division, diversion,
for anything like unity

even so, I think this day of days
is the one to preach
a need for resolution

day we,
not just symbolically,
supremely symbolically,
died
and were reborn again

so much that is secular
to think and say this day

for those
not at Mass

not watching the final scene
with Bob Hoskins staring
at Pierce Brosnan’s
pistol
Irish Republican and
Gangster Empire

have to wonder this
Good Friday
when that twain
shall ever meet.

Published by Damian Garside