President Michael D Higgins has publicly released his first poem since he assumed office in 2011. The Prophets are Weeping was completed last October. Read the full text here.
The poem can be read as dealing with the rise of religious fundamentalism and the displacement of people and appears to contain references to the distortion of religious texts by extremists.
It contains the lines:
"The Prophets are weeping,
At their texts distorted,
The death and destruction,
Imposed in their name."
President Higgins first mentioned the poem publicly at the Gaisce awards last week, but it was included in his Christmas Card message.
He has published four books of poetry - The Betrayal, The Season of Fire, An Arid Season and New and Selected Poems.
Although completed last October, the poem can be seen as remarkably prescient considering the events in France last month.
Islamic extremists killed 17 people in three days of violence that began on January 7 when two men opened fire at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in revenge for the publication of images of the Prophet Muhammed.
The Prophets are Weeping
To those on the road it is reported that
The Prophets are weeping,
At the abuse
Of their words,
Scattered to sow an evil seed.
Rumour has it that,
The prophets are weeping.
At their texts distorted,
The death and destruction,
Imposed in their name.
The sun burns down,
On the children who are crying,
On the long journeys repeated,
Their questions not answered.
Mothers and Fathers hide their faces,
Unable to explain,
Why they must endlessly,
No end in sight,
Move for shelter,
for food, for safety, for hope.
The Prophets are weeping,
For the words that have been stolen,
From texts that once offered,
To reveal in ancient times,
A shared space,
Of love and care,
Above all for the stranger.
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