2016 Poem by Daniel Bernard Kelleher

2016 is fast approaching
What's before us is unclear
Celebrations ahead of schedule
As we head to an other year
Men and Women rebelled and died
So we would have our freedom
To free Ireland of a foreign force
The might of the United Kingdom
Men who signed the treaty
Thought they achieved democracy
Successive governments from that time
Destroyed what had been achieved
Again our democracy is abandoned
Now ruled by European Union