Colin Dardis - The Town That Cured Loneliness

from A Silent War by Ross Thompson And Others

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Written by Ross Thompson

Read by Colin Dardis

Colin Dardis is a poet, editor, arts coordinator and creative writing tutor based in Belfast. His work has been listed in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award, and the Saboteur Awards as well as being published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA. A previous ACES recipient from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Colin co-runs Poetry NI, a multimedia platform for poets. His latest collection is The Dogs of Humanity (Fly on the Wall Press, 2019).

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lyrics

A modern curse,
a deep-seated disease,

a killer as insidious
as cirrhosis
or crippling debt
or drinking alone,

anchored in a human need
for the comfort
and warmth
of skin brushing skin

nearly destroyed a town of goodly folk
hiding behind
closed doors,
drawn curtains
and raised fences,

defending their property
with a moat of indifference,
a portcullis of ignorance,
a trebuchet of inwardness

until one brave soldier besieged and broke down
these ramparts and battlements
with the simple mantra:

be kind, be kind and above all else, be kind.