Ebb And Flow Poem by jim hogg

Plunge with me through the breaking wave
Beneath the raven's wing
Glide silently into the cave
Below the lighthouse hill
Or let us stop a while and stare
Where Fulmars swoop and sing
And images of glory days
Merge with the ragged cliff

Walk with me down the sun bleached strand
Where water wars with stone
And Etta bent for hours on end
Down on the Creechan shore
To find her peace, and keep us fed
Amongst the ebb and flow
Of all the tides of life that rent
So much of all we've known

Look with me if you still can see
The blazing hearth we knew
Your brother on your father's knee
The rain that love shone through
The falling tree that fell too near
The house without a view
Beneath the teeming midnight sea,
And days that were too few

Stand with me high on Cairngaan hill
Unweave the tapestry
Of every fence, of every kill
Of all our vanity
And honour all the ghosts that still
Extend their charity
And all they'll have of love until
We walk the endless way

(chorus)

And now that all the lines are down
I hear them loud and clear
And when there's darkness all around
Sometimes I see them here
Between the face where Ravens soar
And Creechan's stoney shore

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