The Train To Edinburgh

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)