Flow Forever

FLOW FOREVER

As spring nears it's end

My heart yearns for the playground of my childhood
Standing alone on the Boyne Bridge

I gaze into it's depths

Suddenly as if in the sequence of a dream It reemerges

The weir Playground of my childhood

Jewel of the Boyne

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Memories come flooding back

Of happy times spent there

Days filled with sun and fun

Memories so vivid

I hear the laughter of children splashing about

The cry of the gull overhead

The wild swan gracefuly passing head held high

And I lying on it's gentle sloping sides

Water cascading over my shoulders

Listening to the soothing sound of the ripples

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A mysteriousplace to the mind of a child

All embracing in summer yet foreboding in winter

When with the awesome power of a swollen river everything changes

The soothing sound becomes a thunderous roar

And the weir itself disappearing under the relentless deluge

Frightening to the mind of a child

There's an ache in my heart when I remember

How it was ripped from the bosom of the Boyne in '69

Never to return.

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It begins to rain

The vision fades

As I watch the raindrops dance on the river

My thoughts drift through the eye of the bridge

North to where the waters meet at Pool Boy

There's a mighty turbulence

The two rivers become one

The Black Water takes the name of the Boyne

The union is consummated

On they flow together towards the sea

Two rivers one heartbeat

On they flow forever

Together wed

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The sharp sound of a hornbrings me back to reality

I glance to my right and what do I see?

Traffic!

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A four lane motorway which wasn't there when I was a child

I turn north and what do I see?

A giant crane halfway to Heaven

Building apartments at the foot of the hill

Where Brianie the fisherman cast his net

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I decide to go home

Home to where my heart is

Home to the one who took my name.

Left a view of the river Boyne from the railway viaduct before the new road was built and right with the new road.

Michael '' The Sheriff '' Sheils.