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Once Dismissed, Now Embraced.
A Tribute to Conor Cruise O'Brien
Another Hero passes, like
A ship into the night,
Beacons flaring, urging;
Never to forget, things
Said and Unsaid.
Books and Bombs and Broadcasts,
A life less ordinary,
A mind misunderstood, by
Hot Heads,
Far too familiar with the smell
Of Hot Lead.
With time comes a simple sense,
Of Bittersweet success.
Ideas and Dreams and Pictures of,
Peace and Growth and People;
Sharing one future;
Once Dismissed, Now Embraced.
Another Hero passes, like
A ship into the night
Beacons flaring, urging;
Never to forget, things
Said and Unsaid.
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