After All

Once, in Ireland one million died,

and one million more fled 

for their lives,

the equivalent of the population

of Gaza

before…..

And no help came

when the potato crop

was blighted.

Still potatoes were exported,

the farmers betrayed

whilst landlords did well.

The colonialists did well.

They always do.

So, Ireland knows how betrayal feels

in the depth of its turf,

in the depth of its being,

its rock, its stones, 

its body filled bogs, 

its bleached bones

knows that 

change comes

only 

with survival. 

So Ireland leads

its history shows its time

to speak out

to send Aid

to make a stand

un-welcomed 

again by the most powerful.

After all Ireland knows

how lives are blighted. 

https://dsmag.in/2026/09/27/lynn-whites-two-poems-7/