Dancing shadows carved so deep
Mundane to you
Mysterious to us
An enigma
We are spell-bound
Beguiled
Confused as newborns screaming in the night.

For you simple statements
No words, no letters
No hard edged certainties for us
For you a flow
Complexity in stone
Skilled fingers tracing pictures
Symbols dancing
Speaking to you so loudly
Us deaf to their cry

We spin in academic turmoil
Your amusement across the millennia
Debates and conferences swarm with confusion
Your signposts for life
Our publications
But this is our love of you
The problem people, uncatchable
Like Scotland's mists in the autumn's dawn.