Sunny Skies In Omagh Poem by Mai Murphy Venn

Sunny Skies In Omagh

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Sunny skies in Omagh
While cold-blooded murderers prowled around.
Deprived the lives of many loved ones
While the dead lay on the ground.
As the horrifying news reached every home
Across the land and world-wide,
In Omagh,
Protestants and Catholics
Sympathized with each other;
Side by side.
Unborn babies, young and old,
Rest in peace now
As
the investigation
Sadly starts, slowly to unfold.
Families, in shock, wonder
If it just a nightmare
Or
Could it actually be true,
What kind of human
Would do such a cruel deed-
Just tell me, who?
Hospitals were filled with victims
Who was injured in the blast?
Flowers were placed upon the bombsite
In remembrance
And
Mourners, still, flock past.
It was a bleak day for our country
On that sunny, August afternoon;
The peace we longed and craved for
Now, almost in total ruin

Saturday, October 12, 2013
Topic(s) of this poem: deaths
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
A true and sad day in Ireland some years ago
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