Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. - Seamus Heaney

My body was braille for the creeping influences.

History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.

I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof.