Nov 2021
GO GENTLE
my father is dying
I stop at the airport church
prepared to pray
despite my unbelief
raise my hands and eyes
to a cloudy Heaven
but Heaven is not
prepared to hear
this prodigal son
I hold his hand
as he lies dying
this good man
he the only religion
I could believe in
I pray to him
"Go gentle...." I tell him
stroke his dear face
". . .leave this suffering behind."
my father is dying
I stop at the airport church
prepared to pray
despite my unbelief
raise my hands and eyes
to a cloudy Heaven
but Heaven is not
prepared to hear
this prodigal son
I hold his hand
as he lies dying
this good man
he the only religion
I could believe in
I pray to him
"Go gentle...." I tell him
stroke his dear face
". . .leave this suffering behind."
With the sudden death of my younger brother and then the death of my 95 year old Da I was flying in and out of Dublin Airport quite a bit. And so it was I came across this church I hadn't known existed.
In the center of the courtyard stands Imogen Stuart's Madonna Fountain in sheet copper from1969. She also did the wooden Stations of the Cross from 1957( the year after I was born)in my home town of the Curragh Camp.
I have looked at these all my life and here I was coming face to face with another of her works and wondering why I found it so familiar.
In the center of the courtyard stands Imogen Stuart's Madonna Fountain in sheet copper from1969. She also did the wooden Stations of the Cross from 1957( the year after I was born)in my home town of the Curragh Camp.
I have looked at these all my life and here I was coming face to face with another of her works and wondering why I found it so familiar.
