the loch is one of the richest wetlands in the Lothians

though it is much smaller than it was

wild birds still swim and walk around

on the land once was a part of a volcano

 

Bronze Age artifacts are buried

beyond the bottom of the loch

thousands of years ago

on the hillside just behind the loch

humans first came here for hunting

later for cultivating and religious worshiping

the place witnessed a beginning of civilization

and how it fell as time goes by

 

those historic traces ultimately disappeared

but the loch remains

without hunters lurk behind the bushes

and the threat of volcanic rockfall

the land fills with the laugh of geese and swans

waiting for the sunset glow tinted the water red