Ambition

On a wide northern shore

I found a house of stone

Cold in island silence;

And lived alone

Below the sun

With seabird cries,

And other things

Without disguise.

Likely that is why,

Since then,

I try persuading blindness

Back, to see again.

Gerry Cambridge

© Gerry Cambridge.  From The Shell
House, Scottish Cultural Press;
reprinted by permission of the author.