This is not the time to be the bad angel by Jim Byrne

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This is not the time to be the bad angel by Jim Byrne

This is not a poem – it is just some Sunday ruminations that might become a song lyric.

This is not the time to be the bad angel.

this is not the time

this is not the time to be the bad angel

to break the rules

to celebrate the dark side of life

to cut off the kind and the good

to take a stand against the teacher and the doctor

to laugh at your neighbours clean laundry and their good housekeeping

to throw an insult at the smart wife and the caring dad

This is not the time to be the bad angel

sometimes its fun to be the wrecker

smash the school windows and let the car tires down

be the champion of the nasty girls and the lawless boys

to stand behind the cutting remarks and

sneer at the retirees standing inline

In this world of the deluded and the wrecking

this is not the time to be the bad angel

Jim Byrne, January, 2021

(The photograph by Jim Byrne is of the woodcarving in the Glasgow University Chapel.

The carving is by Archibald Dawson A.R.S.A. (1892-1938). “Dawson was reportedly ‘steeped in the traditions of Classical and Medieval sculpture to which he added an individuality and at times a puckish sense of humour,’)

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Written by : Pat Byrne

Publisher of Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End; the community guide to the West End of Glasgow. Fiction and non-fiction writer.

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