"Reconciliation" by Ron Kovana

[H2O Man]

When summer time has gone
And autumn winds threaten
To blow our love away
Tis then we will be tested
Arm in arm we'll stand
Side by side together
To face the common foe
Who would tear our love asunder

(Chorus)
Toora loora lay, toora loora laddie
Toora loora lay, toora lay

All ye fair weather friends
Where are you now we need you
Gone like autumn rain
On dark December mornings
When hard times come around
Like dark and stormy weather
There's only you and I my love
To shelter one another

Chorus

Now there's a time to fight
And there's a time for healing
As the sun will melt the snow
On clear bright April mornings
Our fight has run its course
Now's the time for healing
So let us both embrace
Sweet reconciliation.

This beautiful song, done by Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, is a metaphor calling for peace in Northern Ireland. Their recording of it has a choir of young Catholics and Protestants from Omagh, after the 1998 bombing of their town in County Tyrone.
I am concerned that our society is becoming as divided as Ireland, and that the metaphor will fit our reality again this fall. Yes, we need to remove bush from office, and we shall. But then the question that Martin Luther King, Jr, asked will again confront us: where do we go from here? In the direction of more divisions and more tensions and violence? Or can we find a path towards reconciliation?