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Visiting Belfast back in 2008 we took a wrong turn, and drove by this mural by accident. While explaining the conflict to my two Polish friends, this poem popped into my mind… Its written in the Standard Habbie format made famous by the Bard of Ayrshire, Rabbie Burns<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So that is where they come from
\nWho play the fife and bang the drum
\nAnd boldly up the street they come…
\nButchers apron in the wind flying
\nBeing called “Orange B******s” and “Scum”
\nAs to walk the Queens highway they are trying.<\/p>\nI saw a little… I saw all
\nA white backed mural on a gable wall
\nNot a pleasant area it I would call
\nThat would give its youth some hope
\nAnd so they like their forefathers fall
\nInto hatred: shouting “F**k the Pope”<\/p>\nMaybe yet on a day to arrive
\nThough by then I probably wont be alive
\nIf tolerance can grow and survive
\nBoth Gael and Scot
\nShall help this nation heal bond and thrive…
\nThough perhaps not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visiting Belfast back in 2008 we took a wrong turn, and drove by this mural by accident. 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