Friday, May 10, 2013

Seamas Carraher- A Poem



Prayer at 50

Lord, my house is wrecked,

doors welcome only wind
and its garden withered
with weeds

what an age of catastrophe

for no one
walks here anymore
no visitors are left

time has turned into
a dream

everything falls from its edges
unfolds unravels

this house is all that’s left

on its edge
on my edge

O

Lord,
i have become a stranger

at
the
edge
of
the
world.




Séamas Carraher was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1956. He writes on the Ballyogan estate, in south County Dublin, at present.

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