No Defeat Poem by jim hogg

Stillness called me
to this lochside
here where bitter stars are few
senses sharpen
night draws closer
as the Castle lights fall dim
unseen wings
beat high above me
across this dark'ning loch
mem'ries fell
the walls of time dear
and give us this stage again
where innocence is blind
and cannot find us now
but here within your night
there's no defeat somehow

(Chorus)
And if I should forget
or if we'd never met
my life would not have
been as rich without you there,
somewhere


Every love turns
on the moment
it's not written anywhere
not by fortune
nor by choices,
but for us to win or lose.
everything
remains unknown dear
until it flies or falls.
and this journey
brought me back here
where there's no defeat on love.
beneath the beating wings
where something still plays on,
beneath these glist'ning stars
beside this whisp'ring loch

(Chorus)
and if I didn't say
and though we lost our way
my life would not have
been as rich without you there,
somewhere


(adapted from poem same name - 09 06 09)