Silhouette & Genius
Poetic Observations
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When Life Stalls
Why should we dread tomorrow
for it is only another moment of sorrow,
a day to lift our flagging spirits
and remember yesterday’s dreams.
To raise weary hearts again
hoping our friends still remain.
A kaleidoscope of love and fear
and what draws from the distance, ever near.
The future passed a long time ago
and still I reach the highs from another low.
One year more, bruised and scarred.
One with a loveless kiss,
in the shadow of a radiant sun
and still I reach the highs, as love’s old song grows.
Searching
and misery is the only companion I find.
Then, when all seems lost,
Mother Nature casts a light
and the flowers and meadows follow.
I wash in the stream of my forgotten youth
and somehow, tomorrow has a meaning.
Life and death breached.
I, a little less hollow.
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About the Author
Andrew Sommerville Brock was born at his grandmother’s house in the town of Crieff in Perthshire, Scotland on the 29th August 1963.
The third son of James and the late Mary, he has three younger sisters and is an uncle to many nephews and nieces.
Educated in Crieff, he excelled in athletics and broke many school records; he was school cross-country and sports champion in successive years and in 1980 was county sports champion.
Coached by ‘Purry’ Mcgregor, he turned professional in middle-distance running aged seventeen and had a distinguished career on the Scottish Highland Games circuit. He ran fifth in the One Mile British Championships in 1988, a race won by the Australian Tony Overman whom he beat in an 800metres race the following day.
Andrew has travelled widely in Europe and Southeast Asia and developed his writing skills from his personal journals on these trips.
Loss and regret take a centre stage alongside all he considers beautiful and despite a tremendous sense of humour, it his strong Christian beliefs, which have helped him, overcome some of his most unhappy times.
A member of Equity he has featured in many television shows and movies and worked alongside many famous celebrities as an extra.
However, it is his writing of which he aspires to most and this book reflects his own unique skills of observations in narrative verse.