A Momentary Lapse of Reason

The Rhythm Of Time

There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.
It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.
It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.
It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.
It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along the Appian Way.
It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.
It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.
It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.
It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.
It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.
It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.
It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.
It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’


Bobby Sands

Ontem descobri Bobby Sands, a propósito do filme “Hunger”, de 2008 e que conta com uma grande interpretação de Michael Fassbender (que ganhou alguns prémios por este trabalho). “Hunger” faz um relato (alguns dizem que é mais emotivo que factual), do final da vida de Bobby Sands, soldado do IRA, preso em Maze Prison, em conjunto com vários outros activistas do IRA. Os prisioneiros estão em protesto (“no wash”) para obterem o estatuto de presos políticos e com isso terem outro tratamento que não o de vulgares prisioneiros. Para conseguir isso Sands inicia uma greve de fome, que levaria por fim à sua morte e à de mais 9 prisioneiros, durante 7 meses. O filme é muito intenso, demonstrando a profunda fé que Bobby Sands tem na causa do IRA e na moralidade da greve de fome para obter o estatuto de prisioneiro político, o qual foi por fim conseguido.Como podem ver neste diálogo - uma grande cena do filme. A única coisa que me deu trabalho foi conseguir perceber aquela pronúncia irlandesa carregada….terrível!

(parte 2; parte 3)

Penso que o filme não se torna parcial no que diz respeito à questão da guerra que existe na Irlanda do Norte, mas tenta dar a conhecer uma pessoa que acreditava que fazer o correcto era a única opção em qualquer momento e circunstância da vida, incluindo dar a vida por uma causa maior.


Jubylee