All glory to patriotic Martin McGuinness the redoubtable Che Guevarra of Ireland!

By Stanley Collymore

You were from the outset of your social and political life

a man of sterling qualities and outstanding integrity

Martin McGuinness forced as you undoubtedly

were into the savage and unremitting crucible

of fire and the epidemic dishonesty of the

British generally and the English most

specifically and, what is more, was

remorselessly conducted by them

in their combined barbarity against the courageous,

long suffering, subjugated and genuine Irish men,

women and their children. And although the

mountainous odds in these inured abusers

favour were always massively against

Eire together with all the undeniably

patriotic Irish men, women and

their offspring both at home

and in the wider Irish

Diaspora globally.

Who as in the past had openly and democratically

done in a free and fair election expressing their

earnest and still ongoing desire for a United

Eire and Irish nation, that quite adoringly

impassioned dream and and matching

aspiration assuredly will always live

on eternally rooted in the deeply

emboldened hearts and the

conscionable minds of all successive generations of

courageous, committed, truly nation-loving and

indubitably patriotic Irish man, woman and

their children as admirably it must and

will consistently do; and due in no

short measure to irrefutanly loyal

and genuinely committed Irish

citizens like yourself Martin

McGuiness and the heroic

and selfless part that you

and of course Sinn Fein

have massively played

and carry on doing in

every aspect of this!

So hail then I openly and proudly say to you Martin

McGuinness, Sinn Fein and the IRA! completely

convinced as evidently I and every other right

thinking and knowledgeable person knows

and intensely wishes for, that those who

selflessly fight and willingly die for

their national integrity conjoined

with the united sovereignty of

Ireland and its people’s right to choose

and unconstrained determine their

own destiny will inevitably one

day sucessfully achieve their

ambition by appropriately

acquiring and proudly

upholding their way.

© Stanley V. Collymore

22 March 2017.

Author’s Remarks:

Firstly, I wish to express my deepest and sincerest regrets and sadness at the death of Martin McGuinness a truly great man, courageous in his actions, inspirational to all genuinely political democratic aspirants and a highly principled individual who gave no quarters and expected none and who, in my honest and unapologetic opinion, unsurprisingly and also non-ostentatiously convincingly developed into a markedly consummate and a most outstandingly accomplished statesman.

Secondly to convey at this grieving time for them my heartfelt condolences and best wishes to Martin’s widow and his family members, close friends and associates and, of course the members and supporters of Sinn Fein for your irreparable loss. But if it’s any consolation to you to say to you as well that you weren’t alone in your justifiable love for, respect of and total admiration also of Martin.

And that this poem I’m now publishing online and which was instantaneously conceived and written the very moment I learnt of Martin’s death on the 21^st March 2017 is a personal tribute from me, my German female Partner and my family to a fantastically remarkable man together with being as well a noble statesman in the true context of that terminology. Someone whose untimely death is deeply regretted but will all the more because of who Martin McGuinness was and the exceptional legacy that he has achieved during his lifetime and has left for us will focus our thoughts and fond remembrances of him on the massive loss we’ve all both individually and collectively suffered.

So God continue to bless you Martin as He takes you to his and now your own celestial home, while we who remain here on Earth until our individual time comes to depart it in permanent fashion will until we meet up with you again earnestly cherish and enduringly remember you for the superb, conscionable and implacably fair and honest Gentleman that you were and for us will always remain! Farewell friend and political mentor, until we meet again.