So How Long Should England Pay for What It Did

March 16, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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A St. Patrick’s Day poem about crime and reconciliation:

So how long should England pay for what it did

To Ireland? Or India? Or Kenya?

Perhaps justice would require a famine,

A few million dead, its stolen wealth

Taken back by those from whom it came.

Remember well the crimes, and on the grid

In history’s ledgers enter in full the terror.

Choose truth and reconciliation, else,

Kind for kind, there is no end to pain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race

3/12: Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy

3/13: Sinners All, We Ask for Your Forgiveness

3/14: St. Patrick Rid the Emerald Isle of Snakes

3/15: St. Patrick’s Day Commemorates the Turning

3/16: So How Long Should England Pay for What It Did