There's an abandoned croft house on Harris

Reflecting on Hebridean memories

Every now and then

I'm reminded of a memory

Taken back to a place

Far away, long ago

There's an abandoned croft house on Harris

The stale smell of the old thatch

The quiet in this forgotten place

Devoid of people now, only us

I remember the tension,

The anticipation, expectation

Everything leading up to this

There's an abandoned croft house on Harris

Vaguely wondering who lived here

The lives they led, through the generations

No clues left to who they were

Or why they left this sanctuary

Lost to time now, ghosts of the past,

Memories hang suspended in time

There's an abandoned croft house on Harris

A place of contradiction, juxtapositions

Ancient culture meets modern ideas

Fighting for their place here

There was love in this emptiness

This house - a symbol of the past but currently my present

Right here and now, we're caught in this instant

There's an abandoned croft house on Harris

A moment, lost to time,

Verdant even now, despite the years

Recalled in another time, another world

Drawing a smile in the small hours, in the quiet dark

A life now changed drastically from those days

Some things are unimaginable on the mainland

There's an abandoned croft house on Harris

In this town there are sprawling housing estates

Creeping steadily across the landscape

Towering buildings blocking out the sun

Endlessly rolling by the bus window

As I make my way to an office job

No quiet corners here in which to steal a moment

But my heart's still in the Hebrides

In an abandoned croft house on Harris