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Introduction:
Evangelicalism
Derek Poole
Comment:
Ourselves Alone
Alwyn Thomson
From
the Director
David Porter
A
World of Difference
Alwyn Thomson
What
is an Evangelical Catholic?
Paddy Monaghan
Decommissioning
the Heart
David Bruce
Evangelical
Catholics
T. Gordon Hills
Sorting
out the Family
David Montgomery
Do
They Know Us by Our Love?
John Ortberg
Loyalist
Speak
Robert Dunlop
Book
Reviews
Alwyn Thomson
LOYALIST SPEAK
You ask me who
I am
Don't be asking me
Ask oul Willie
Him of Ballykilbeg
Or wee Kennaway.
They'll explain themselves
Tell you all you need to know.
The facts you want,
the facts you'll get
Anyway, what you see
is what is there,
Not the fancy write offs
Up at Queen's
by you know who.
You want me to
talk
Man, how can I talk when
they're all screaming at me?
What's the point?
I'm tired of talks
and when I speak
My accent gives me away
No one listens to a word I say.
You think I'm
blind
I think you're dumb
Can you not see from
all the grandeur
set out upon my stall
That I am one,
and proud to be just one
even the only one
of the Loyal Sons of Ulster.
What more do
you want
Me to explain myself
Apologise for being who I am
Give more away?
When you, huddled up with
Taigs, and Brits and Yanks
and Free State Prods
tell me the vulture has
all the culture
And we have nothing.
Well let me tell
you
What we have
We have the past
The past is me
I am the past
The past will be
The future too.
Don't say I said
it
But stick around
Not like the bigots of the BBC
or the bloody Japs
Who pick our bones
and hang us out to dry
on that accursed thing they call TV.
Just be there for us
Take the soundings of our pain
Not for fat reports
or high profiles
But for the sake of one
who holds the key
and, is in the end
the last friend left
for you and me.
Robert Dunlop is the Pastor of Brannockstown Baptist Church, County Kildare. He has had a number of books of poetry published. Robert wrote 'Loyalist Speak' on the 12th July this year while attending the ECONI Summer conference 'Back to the Future'.
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