it's never easy

we've waited fifteen years for this and
we've been up and down the country to every dumpish corner
of this island and
we've worried our fingers to the bone and we've worried
our wives, mothers, daughters with this preoccupation

and I tell you this:
take it away now,
take it away after all that

and I'll do time, I swear:
arson, murder, whatever

and I won't be alone