Silence will Echo by Darragh Coady

Is it just a slogan?

Looks catchy on a shirt

How or when did it lose its meaning

White flags left grovelling in the dirt

That dirty rag is still a white flag

Ever a banner of truce

Throw down your hatred

Break all shackles and

Turn every captive loose

Without fear, not tyranny

With hands, not ceremonies

Help the feeble, the hungry, and the oppressed

To freedom, life, equality

The fundamentals at our very core

We uphold those traits above all else

In both times of peace and war

Silence will echo long after the cries

The hunger, the famine, the heartbreaking goodbyes

And should evil prevail

Through the greed and the lies,

The silence will echo long after the cries

Maybe not tomorrow

But we’ll settle for today

For a promise made

An honest one

A pact for all to play

And never shall bow we as a people

As long as freedom’s the vow and morality our steeple

And silence will echo, long after the cries

The hunger, the famine, the heartbreaking goodbyes

When the bluebirds sing

Over war free skies,

The music will echo long after the cries

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Darragh Coady is an Irish composer of gritty poems with an occasional social conscience. His poetry has appeared in magazines in Ireland, UK and USA. He has shared his words in Berlin, Paris and The Netherlands. The themes explored within his poems include poverty, love, memory, politics, mortality and injustice.