Daniel McDonagh

The Wind, It Carries Your Name

The wind, it carries your name

Over trees bent from an atomic weight

Pass rooftops charred by fire and hate

Over fields where crops have been raped.

Floating over a body of silent water

Were the Cirein-Cròin is in a restless sleep

Who would, if it could, inhale the wind

And descend in darkness to fathoms deep.

And still, the wind, it carries your name

Dancing and whistling around midnight stars

Through the Campsie Glens and snow covered Bens

Along streets of remembrance and childhood dreams.

The wind, it will swim with your name

Pass forgotten homes of the Damnonii tribe

Navigate pass the Tobacco Lairds Lang Dyke,

Over the trembling clutches of the River Clyde.

The wind, it will transport your name

Twisting, turning up along the Forth and Clyde Canal

As your ashes are scattered on a cold Cathures day

Onto, old blessed and holy soil.