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Carbad-iarainn / Two trains

Carbad-iarainn

Dithis
Carbad-iarainn
Ri taobh a chèile
'S iad an impis dèanamh às
Anns an dorchadas
Agus mi fhìn a' sealltainn
Air an taobh thall
'S mi an dùil
Gur h-e mo sgàth fhèin
A gheibh mi air ais
Anns a' ghlainne
'S clisgeadh orm 's uamhann
'S gun agam de sgàth
Ach coigreach air mo bheulaibh.


Two trains

Two carriages side by side
About to depart in the darkness:

There's me
Looking into the other,

Expecting to find
My own reflection,

Shocked
To find not my own

But a stranger
Looking into my eyes.


Rody Gorman
 
From Scottish Poems
(Macmillan, 2001)

 

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