Flower of the West

Sunburst

The morning moor

The light of God

The heart of youth

I look around me

My eyes find their rest

On this garden

The flower of the west



The silent skies

An innocent heart

Holding the moment away

From time in the dark

All I see, all I know,

Is touching the sacred earth

Warming the hallowed ground



Walk on

Walk on

Walk on



Sunrise

The colour frontier

The ageing light

The sight that knows no fear

I look over Orinsay

To the Trumisgarry shore

To Aloter and the road to Ahmore



The silent skies

An innocent heart

Holding the moment away

From time in the dark

All I see, all I know,

Is touching the sacred earth

Warming the hallowed ground



I survive the childhood universe

And I step the naked heath

Where the breathing of the vanished

Lies in acres round my feet

Past Loch Scadavagh Loch Fada

And the flatlands to the east

Where the dark blue mass of Eval

Meets the rising Rock of Lee

Between the Crogary and Mairi

I started to descend

Loch Aongais on my left hand side

I look across to Clett

Collies barking on the outrun

Dunlin dancing on the sand

Breakers show round Corran Vallique

And empty the Atlantic on the strand



The silent skies

An innocent heart

Holding the moment away

From time in the dark

All I see, all I know,

Is touching the sacred earth

Warming the hallowed ground



Flower of the west