Lady Stair's Close Poem by Laurence Overmire

Three great Scottish writers
Robert Burns
Sir Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson

Celebrated in
The Writer's Museum
In Lady Stair's House
Built in 1622

Portraits, busts
Objects and
Writings

The lives of three great men
Are partially revealed in
Fragments
Of their time on this
Earth

What will be left of us
You and I?
If anything
Hundreds of years
From now

'We are such stuff
As dreams are made on'

Another great writer said

The books may find themselves
Neglected and forgotten
On dusty shelves
But there will always be thinkers
Dreamers
Lovers

They will find a way to truth

They will give the spark
To another age
And another celebration
Of what it means
To be alive.

~ Laurence Overmire

(Previously published in The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland, Indelible Mark Publishing,2016)