Sr Bernadette Nyam is a Nigerian Religious from the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary who has completed the Sabbatical Programme at An Tairseach in the autumn of 2019.
Sr Bernadette has shared with ECI her reflections on the programme along with her poems, inspired by her time at An Tairseach. You can read them in full here.
No Longer the Same
It is no longer business as usual,
No more speculations
Blame games,
Now is the time,
Either I change,
Or die.
It is no longer business as usual
Eating, drinking and buying,
Destroying the earth
With my garbage,
Waste
Filth.
Taking and taking, more and more,
For me, myself and I, and mine,
And giving back nothing,
Without perception,
Blind and deaf,
Senseless.
Nothing is the same anymore,
The moment of truth is now,
The scales removed, I see,
I look into the mirror,
The universe is me,
Looking at me.
No longer business as usual,
In her death my death,
Her life my life
To choose life
Is change.
Conversion.
Sr Bernadette Nyam