25th January is Burns Night when the Scottish celebrate their favourite poet, Robert Burns, and eat their favourite meal, Haggis. In celebration of Burns’s famous poem ‘Address to a Haggis’ SWC member Patrick O’ Gorman honours his delicious egg.
THE HUMBLE EGG
By Patrick O’Gorman
Of what would breakfast consist without you,
versatile and good,
You compete and overcome all
Those pretenders to your throne can only look on
vanquished and humbled
by your nutritious presence
Even on the bleakest of days as I rise
leaden and encumbered
by the excesses of last evenings inebriations
You are there to comfort
and still my spinning head
Oh Egg, oh glorious egg
whether you are scrambled, poached, fried or boiled,
No matter which country or terrain,
I shamble my weary body to the table,
You are there to remind that life is worth living,
giving me courage to begin again.