Ashes

Quiet
Drifting on the sea
Of all eternity
Aloof
Floating in the ether
Mocking self-importance
Careless
Here before
And forever after
Silent
Silent and sure.
Here
There is no war
Nor futile machinations
Nothing matter
Gliding
In the warmth of a sun-ray.
Peaceful
In the glow of the evening
In the tomb of Nemesis.

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Biography

Paul O'Prey was born in Belfast in 1965 and grew up on the  Ormeau Road. He left school at sixteen to take a job in the  building trade as an apprentice joiner and left Belfast when he was 24  to live and work in London, where he spent six years before  returning to Dublin to work in 1996. He is currently working in the  computer industry as a technician. His work has previously appeared in Electric Acorn 1 and Electric Acorn 7.