‘It’s those unseen things that bind us’
Phil Lucas reports on a recent General Meeting for Scotland
General Meeting for Scotland met in Inverness on Saturday 13 September, just five days before the Independence Referendum. During opening worship, the poem ‘The Morning After, Scotland, 19th September 2014’ by Edinburgh Makar (poet laureate) Christine de Luca was read to us, including these lines:
…We aim for more equality;
and for tomorrow to be more peaceful
than today; for fairness, opportunity,
the common weal; a hand stretched out
in ready hospitality.
It’s those unseen things that bind us,
not flag or battle-weary turf or tartan.
There are dragons to slay whatever happens:
poverty, false pride, snobbery, sectarian
schisms still hovering. But there’s
nothing broken that’s not repairable.
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