DEORAITHE
Le Aodán Ó Sé © 2015
Tá rabharta nua le taoide na himirce
Imirce intíre is imirce thar lear.
Páil na hÉireann ag éirí plúchta
Is ag slogadh plúr na tuaithe.
Na mílte Gaedheal le céim ollscoile
Ag teitheadh leo ar fuaid na cruinne.
Ní le sclábhaíocht ach le tóir ar
Impireacht dian an domhandachais.
Mar chúiteamh ar an rabharta daonna
Seo chugainn comharsain nua
Ildánach, ilteangach, ilchreidmheach
A n-iolrachas mar dhúshlán dúinn.
An saibhre linn a dtuirlingt orainn
Mar fuilaistriú ar chlanna Gaedheal
Fad is a bheidh ár muirear féinigh
Ag spaisteoireacht i bhfad i gcéin?
MIGRANTS
There is a new migratory tide around us
Internal migration and migration overseas.
Ireland's metropolis ever more congested
As it swallows the best of our youth.
Thousands of our are graduates fleeing
Back and forth across the globe
Not as deportees or penniless labourers
But as cogs in capitalism's world empire.
To compensate for this human exodus
Here come new neighbours to our shores
Talented, multilingual, of all faiths and none
Startling and challenging our parochial core.
Are we not richer for their arrival?
Will they be a blood transfusion to our nation?
Meanwhile our loved ones stroll down foreign boulevards
And flicker occasionally on Skype.
