Maybe
it’s something about the hills and mountains that tower through the county of
Wicklow. Maybe it’s the fact they create such beauty when you see them from
Wicklow Town. Maybe it’s the Black Castle that has seen such important days of
my life.
Maybe
it’s an old Hotel that greets you enter.
Maybe
it’s a rolling haystack, or a swing hanging from an old Oak Tree. Maybe it is
something a small as a pothole on the road you grew up. Maybe it’s the piers,
as they grow towards each other. Maybe it’s the Wendy, floating aside the
diving boards. Maybe it’s sitting on the sand at the Silver Strand at 2am in
the morning, being told the person you are about to kiss thinks she will end up
ruining your life.
Maybe
it’s just shaking your head, and kissing her anyway.
Maybe
it’s the Saturday fry you always get from you Mother, maybe it’s the
constant chauffeuring your always get from your Father.
Maybe
it’s the absent friends, and the hopes that you will bump into them. Maybe
it’s early morning walks on a Saturday. Maybe it’s the place you used to sit
and wit.
Maybe
it’s the memories of feeling alive. Maybe it’s the joy that seeped though
you veins in the few months of perfect joy you had.
Maybe
it’s the fact you left your heartbreak there.
Maybe
it’s the fact you were not afraid to come back and face it.
Maybe
it’s realising that in this place, that this stunning piece of craftsmanship
from God, you will always have a home, you will always have a dream and you will
always have the time to realise, that your life isn’t actually that bad at
all.