The Arrival Poem by Dónall Dempsey

The Arrival

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There is an Irish Sea
between us.

I watch the boat
battle the waves

tossing them behind it
as slowly upon an horizon

Ireland emerges
a watercolour pinned to a thin line

just the jist of it
the slight suggestion of land.

Delay after delay
has brought us to this day

the moment
home is reached

the car door slam
the crunch of gravel

as finally we
arrive at your death.

Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: death
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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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