Sunrise over Edinburgh

At the beginning of August, together with our friends from Northern Leg of Student Cross we spent an amazing weekend in Edinburgh. To make the 2am start and 9 hour coach journey worthwhile, I was determined to pack as much as possible into the weekend, and feel like we succeeded in doing exactly that. I came home tired... I have no regrets.

When you only have three days, one way to stretch time is to stay up late, and get up early, and we did both. My particular thanks go to the other crazy people who said yes to my random suggestion of climbing Salisbury Craggs at 4.30 on Sunday morning to watch the sunrise! It was stunningly beautiful. Neither a camera, nor words, can ever adequately capture that kind of thing, but someone mentioned poetry while we sat on the hillside that morning, so I guess that, became this:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtTOiMRp4g&feature=emb_logo)

Scrambling

Above silent, still-dreaming streets

Sleep rubbed from tired eyes

To turn

Towards mountain, sea and skies

As a glow of warmth

Creeps

Over jagged rock

And softened light

Breaks

Through dappled cloud

To blur

The sharp edges of our lives

This majestic moment

Incompletely captured

By camera’s lens

But safely stored

In the recesses of the mind

Here

Where buffeted in the breeze

Friendship laughs 

Beneath brightening skies

In this

The shared space

Of a daring to say yes

Live experiences

Not soon forgotten

And thus we pause

A brief hiatus in our busy lives

Until coffee and companions

Call us back

To the bustle

Of a city

Just waking to another day

But now

With this divine beauty

Forever nestled in a corner

Of our hearts.