The Train To Edinburgh Poem by Laurence Overmire

Leaving London
Aboard a train
Watching the countryside
Change

From Peterborough
To Doncaster
To Wakefield
Leeds
York
Darlington
Newcastle

And finally passing into
Scotland
For the very first time

This is the return
After so many hundreds of
Years

All of my ancestors are with me
Burns, Scott, Douglass,
Colquhoun, Buchanan, Baird,
Pollock, McKibben and Thompson

As the door opens
My foot steps down on
Solid ground

Home.

~ Laurence Overmire

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