Walking In The Rain

26/10/10

Walking In The Rain by Jim Aitken

Jim Aitken lives and works in Edinburgh, where he has been an English teacher in a large secondary school for many years. His first publication was a collection of poems called 'Glory', published by Clockwork in 2001. He has also had a play performed at the Edinburgh Fringe called ' Fom Haddington to Palestine' at Theatre Workshop in 2006. His last collection of poems, 'Neptune's Staff and other Formations', was published by SCND in 2007. He also write articles on education for the TESS from time to time and has a new play, 'Letters From Area C', which he hopes to have performed next year. He has been a Scottish PEN member for a number of years.

Walking In The Rain

That day high above Cromarty
we walked under your umbrella.
In the grey light and in the mist
we were lost on the high road.
The road had to lead somewhere,
I said, and we kept on walking.

And we are still walking that road
even though we found a way down.
We still walk, my arm around you,
the soft rain running down our backs,
our feet squelching through the puddles,
heading out into the unknown.

Jim Aitken

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