In an instant I saw it clearly.
This smiling girl
was
no longer a casual date,
...
I have long know of their journey
learned at my mothers knee.
How the Magi travelled long and hard
To the land of Galilee
...
The waves upon the Bass Rock
Beat mournful in the dawn
And in the Leeside of this monolith
The Cod and Mackeral spawn
...
Across the fields where
once a bugle played
The returning echo
of the children’s laughter.
...
Behind the eye
before the mind
where 'feel' and 'see'
are one.
...
The memory of a smile long gone
returns to warm me on
this windy March morning
and in it’s swirling song
...
Dancing lightly on the breeze
As any autumnal leaf would
Just ahead of that final
chasing icy winter wind.
...
These terraces and pillars are pitted with
the dying screams of generations
and where I sit base instincts
grew with every final pained breath.
...
I stood in tight chested forbodeing
at the hem of your heathered dress
long years on from when
you did your best to kill me.
...