Poem: Emotional Transfer

15th November 2023
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By Sophie Meehan When I told him I cried over  Never seeing Chris Forrester in a Pat's jersey again He said "Jesus you’ve a good life If that’s the most of your troubles" But I know it’s for all the things You never miss until they leave you Walkin

By Sophie Meehan

When I told him I cried over 
Never seeing Chris Forrester in a Pat's jersey again
He said "Jesus you’ve a good life
If that’s the most of your troubles"

But I know it’s for all the things
You never miss until they leave you
Walking down the canal 
To do the family shopping

And for all bad things 
Being one bad thing
Luke Kelly in a pub with a
Scar shaved into his hair

I said I’d do anything to see him there again
But he flew over as soon as the deal was signed
There’s the bargaining and the denial
And the guilt because
I missed his last matches 
Those months when I wasn’t coming home

I lost the scarf I wore through that first season
On the bus to Carrick
It had a lipstick stain 
From the Legia game
When we wore red and went to Tallaght
And tea stains
From warming our hands 
In the stands, in the rain

The last time I saw him it was
Cold, bitter cold
But there was a rainbow coming in
Over the Camac
Spring only starting
And everything to be accounted for
In added time

 

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