Our school flag shines inside a gale, as we are about to abandon the Old AHS for brand new walls at Clickimin….
This morning, one single thought dawned on me: our final day with our pupils at our familiar street address, Lovers’ Loan.
I share a common blend of feelings, like so many of us – torn with leaving a great headland and the Old Institute Sir Arthur Anderson had built in the name of education (1862) and shifting into a state of the art 21st century building.
To mark such move, I penned a piece now with the New Shetlander for a future issue.
Cheerio, Lovers’ Loan
We pile boxes upon boxes, whilst our
sky
lashes tears in rain –
for this last
day,
bairns fill corridors with voices only
a ghoul
will
memorise…
The green and gold of our
old flag
flap
in
a
gale
we cannot stop.
Speckled swaabies in search of toast some pupil
parted on
wet grass –
they know the restaurant
will close,
watch silhouettes behind
lit glass.
October signals
departure from granite walls,
shiny square slates…
Our final day at Lovers Loan
wi bairns
an aa.
Lerwick, Old AHS, 4 Oct 2017
I will miss our “Hogwarts”.
From one era into the next.
