Red Courage

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Caitliceach Cailín

Red Courage

By Caitlin Clancy

Copyright 2014

You barely remembered

The shrapnel

Or how the shell

Found your side

All you knew

Was the sickening stab

Of the thought

That they all had died

And that moment

When you would

Beg them

To leave you lying there

To leave you lying there

To let you go from where

The cannons

And the rifles blare

To leave you lying there

To let you go from there,

With the smoky,

Bleeding air;

To leave you lying there.

Then amid the muzzles’ flash

Bright and quick

You saw her sash

Dancing in light

You heard your child call

In a voice

So very small

‘Don’t leave me lonely here’

Don’t leave me lonely here

Don’t leave me lonely here

Was ever a cry so dear?

Don’t leave me lonely here!

Pain gushing

From your side

You saw Him

Who made the world His Bride

Your own dark crimson tide

Beside that ocean

Seemed

To ebb –

I won't leave you lonely, dear,

Let me come to dry your tear,

Don’t leave me lying here –

This life also is of God.