Sound It was a wild upbringing As most would share And for all the horror Which goes beyond forensics Because it was life Tragedy & Ecstasy Not some “etherised patient” Like TS Eliot’s Anglo-Saxon implosion The Irish were explosive “The Blacks of Europe” Though I think our Eastern cousins might know and then some For all the horror I heard sounds Sounds Sounds Sounds I’ve never heard on record Never Colonised Unable to be written Only witnessed I heard the beginning of time The drum The Voice The song The Drum Ancient… It took marrying an African Mauritian To learn some facts Add to what I feared when I clenched Was only Irish trauma & sounds… dreams We have the same slave roots Language banned Education banned Marriage banned Property Stolen L...