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"Here is the bird that never flew
Here is the tree that never grew
Here is the bell that never rang
Here is the fish that never swam"
Glasgow city crest
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today, I climbed above
six hundred thousand souls
keeping their distance
for love of another they do not know
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I did not weep
for my dear green place
but knelt
and prayed
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prayed thankyou
for love that has not grown cold
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prayed please God
do not let us be the trees that never grew
do not let us be the birds that never flew
do not let us be the fish that never swam
do not let us be the bells that never rang
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(C) Andy McNeish
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Let us unloose the alleluias!
Let us open our doors,
our gates,
our windows,
unlock the lockdown,
and set the alleluias free.
Let them fly like children’s kites
high above our quite streets,
multicoloured balloons
over the empty parks,
rainbow pictures
filling every window;
let us unlock the alleluias,
for even if we must not yet leave our quiet tombs,
at least let us set free hope
that this tomb-like time is temporary:
it is what we must do
before the life comes back.
So let the alleluias sing together
where we cannot yet do so;
let the alleluias gather
where silence lingers;
let the alleluias commit ‘social converging’
in daring and colourful ways,
that while we cannot escape our isolation
we are preparing for the time
when our own kind of resurrection comes
a time when
we gather together,
and feast,
and sing,
and laugh,
and roll eggs,
and share stories,
and meet each other’s eyes again
and celebrate,
the life we are promised,
today.
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