Feb 2019
THE BRAVE
( “Love sets the heart a-dreaming.”)
God hasn’t(as yet)
finished
making the world
just…the…gist of it.
He makes “the place
where the mountains live”
and had still to sketch in
the actual landscape.
So that the mountains
Just float in mid-air
as if upheld
by mist only.
He is listening intently
on his headphones
to music yet to be
created.
He digs Gabor Szabo’s
“Half The Day Is Night.”
I don’t know where He
gets His slang from!
He also had not got around to
making people.
So that the earth
was empty
The mountains
looked like gigantic beasts
that had somehow fallen
asleep…frozen into place.
One day the mountains
will come alive.
I tiptoe past
their sleeping…just in case.
“Well..?” asked God
unsure of Himself.
“Whatdoya think
is it a goer?”
I emmm and hawww
“Yeah…it’s…something else!”
He beamed from ear to ear
“But might need a tweak?”
“So what is it going to be called?”
I obsequiously enquired
knowing he had invented me
Just to agree with Him.
The Big Guy smirked:
“I’m thinking of calling it
THE BRAVE
or perhaps
SCOTLAND!”
( “Love sets the heart a-dreaming.”)
God hasn’t(as yet)
finished
making the world
just…the…gist of it.
He makes “the place
where the mountains live”
and had still to sketch in
the actual landscape.
So that the mountains
Just float in mid-air
as if upheld
by mist only.
He is listening intently
on his headphones
to music yet to be
created.
He digs Gabor Szabo’s
“Half The Day Is Night.”
I don’t know where He
gets His slang from!
He also had not got around to
making people.
So that the earth
was empty
The mountains
looked like gigantic beasts
that had somehow fallen
asleep…frozen into place.
One day the mountains
will come alive.
I tiptoe past
their sleeping…just in case.
“Well..?” asked God
unsure of Himself.
“Whatdoya think
is it a goer?”
I emmm and hawww
“Yeah…it’s…something else!”
He beamed from ear to ear
“But might need a tweak?”
“So what is it going to be called?”
I obsequiously enquired
knowing he had invented me
Just to agree with Him.
The Big Guy smirked:
“I’m thinking of calling it
THE BRAVE
or perhaps
SCOTLAND!”
Think I thought that Scotland would be just a continuation of England with a different accent! How wrong was I? It was overwhelmingly awesome and so uniquely itself. Oh and its people! I fell in love with all its magnificent beauty. And oh its mountains and the sense of space...like being at the dawn of creation. Just then Gabor Szabo’s“Half The Day Is Night”came on the car radio and so it was that it returned me to the original maker putting it all together. God of course as it happened was listening on His headphones to the same track because...well...He could! He also as it happened had a need to invent me to give Him the nod as to whether it was all working out. And so it was that Love set the heart a-dreaming.
