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"The Sign"
-Eric

In the of last year, in a city* far from here
That stands on the shores of the fair sea
I it's pleasant streets, no view in mind, no one to meet
to wander where my aimless feet led me

A few streets from my hotel, I passed an old wall
where words had been scrawled by an unknown hand
When I read them I stopped dead, in I shook my head
For the words on wall read, "Free Bobby Sands"

As the sun began to fall, and the day to die
Thought I the wild geese call, from a dark and empty sky
For long minutes I stood there, in busy thoroughfare
the past rose sharp and clear in my mind's eye

I saw it all again, the passion, hate, and
the indifference and the shame as a young man
But it was all so long ago, and who now cares or
why Bobby Sands chose his death?

But to the one who wrote sign,
it that Bobby's light still shines
The rang from another time,
but the paint was

As the sun to fall, and the day began to die
Thought I heard the wild call, from a dark and empty sky
So I went to the sea, to let it's wild song comfort me
But my thoughts would not let me be, and unchecked ran

my future, present, and past,
not for the first time nor the
I heard them ask, "Could you be the of man
who would gladly sacrifice everything, life
and put no on a cause, or an ideal?"
No answer echoed in my heart, so I turned and I walked
the twilight's deepening dark, to my hotel.

Historical
Bobby Sands, MP, was in 1981 under criminal charges
from his alleged involvement in IRA terrorist activities
in Ulster (Northern Ireland). Mr. Sands, along with
20 other alleged IRA members in prison trial, went
on a hunger strike to protest conditions in the prison, and to
the IRA members reclassified as "political prisoners".
The hunger strike lasted than 60 days, resulting in the deaths
of many of the prisoners, of Mr. Sands was the first to succumb.

*Auckland, New