Reflection on the Death of a Loved One.

My deepest sympathies to the families of those who died in the tragic explosion in Creeslough. I can barely imagine the feelings of devastation that must hang over all in such a small tightly-knit community. It has brought back my own exeriences of death, though none in such tragic circumstances.

Reflection on the Death of a Loved One. 

Your death has drilled into me 

deeper than I knew existed. 

There, in the centre of myself, 

this sudden disarrangement, 

as though some vital bolt loosened 

and parts of me disassembled. 

But if your time has passed, 

not so your life, 

I live on with you, braid of my soul 

which even death cannot undo.