Some months ago, with encouragement from a very very special person, who shall remain nameless unless said person chooses to identify huself, I began intentional prayer to my patron saint, Brigid of Kildare. In prayer/trance/meditation/whatever one chooses to call what it is that I do when I’m able to lose myself in God’s Love and Presence, I began to write. I’d never shared anything this personal with anyone, not even my beloved spouse. But write I did; and send I did, in an email to this beloved person. I choose to share with you all, my personal “beloved community.”
The Ancients and The Fay both call
Both to nourish my heart and soul
Where the body moves and cries to Justice
To Iona, to Skellig, to Glendalough, to Tara and Meath
To Ulster, to Belfast, to Derry, to Portadown, to Armagh and Oomagh
I call down The Powers of the Ancient Ones
I call down The Powers of the Most High
I call down The Powers of the beehive Saints in Cells
I call down The Powers of the Moon and Sun
I call down The Powers of the Mists and Rain
I call down The Powers of the Green and Her Very Stones
To come….to come….to home….to home….
To circle the wells
To leave the clooties
I come as a Daughter of Erin
I come as the Daughter of Grady
I ask to come as a Pilgrim
I come to walk in the mists
and I come to follow The Way
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If You want me to work alongside others
to raise up the all new Irish
If You want me to work to heal the Troubles
If You want me to stand alongside of
and stand up for the Travellers
Then You have to get me there first
You have to change Kilkenny’s heart
You have to make it beat for You like a bodhran
You have to bring us home!
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Brigid, Come get me
Brigid, Call me
Brigid, Heal me
Brigid, I follow.
Brigid, Take me Home
Brigid, Bring me Home
Brigid, Make my bed
Brigid, Be with me
Brigid, I come
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Irish Dove of God, Columba
Whose Home is and within the Derry walls
The place of the Oak
Bring me to your HomeLand
Move me to the Bogside
So that the Voices of my people
Sing me to sleep
Even into the Sleep of Death
I want to Go Home
I want to Come Home
