DEORAITHE

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.