AT LAST
It was then that morning
he saw and understood
what it meant, what all this meant;
to be caught here in a place of brokenness –
the rubble of the rocks, the useless lochans,
the unarable land, the relentless days
when there was no going out, no respite;
that it was about this, the wonder of all this,
that took the whole heart hostage.
Kenneth Steven