The Rape Of Tara Poem by Michele Vassal

Time hinged on indifference
myths patterned time
myths circling land
myths kernels of
history silenced like
the Stone of Destiny
myths
reduced
to artifacts
dormant in clefts
of rock and ashes
whilst the white vein of
Boand still beats tight
on the breast bone of the Morrigan
Amergin silenced
Cú Chulainn silenced
riders of the Sídhe slain
by reivers bearers of
destruction who
brought no stone
for the building of cairns
but gouged the land
for greed
for idiocy
myths silenced
time hinged on indifference