Portree Awakening

On a rainy morning Full of portended Gloom What could be more Delightful Than little schoolchildren Crossing the thoroughfare Like the Beatles On Abbey Road See them skip across In their bright Red slickers Hand in hand Buddy to buddy From one safe sidewalk To the other Their teachers giving Guidance and direction Watching with careful Concern The beaming yellow Macks on their backs Shining like beacons of love There is something Inviolable here Universal and true Kindness passed In the simplest of acts From one generation To another Peace will come to the World this way Some more eloquent than I Have said: 'And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love You make' If only we would Let it be. ~ Laurence Overmire (Previously published in The Ghost of Rabbie Burns, Indelible Mark Publishing,2016)