Pacing the Floorboards
The Weight of Waiting
7 March - 4 April 2026
The House of Smalls, Edingburgh
thehouseofsmalls.com/theweightofwaiting
Mixed Media Sculpture and Text Piece
Pacing the Floorboards
Pacing the floorboards
Worn underfoot with the miles
That has led to nothing
But the weight of wasted time, of squandered chances,
Of mislaid hope.
Age should not make you silent,
But somehow it takes you,
And your echoes.
Wisdom should not make you disappear,
Yet you become diaphanous glass.
While you rest, time curls round you.
Steeling your view, your space,
Your existence.
Cocooning you with the heaviness of questions
The space left within airless, unreachable, impenetrable.
Weathered by so many stormy waves,
You are not sure where the shore is any more
Silenced within the placating thunder
Screaming so loud no one can hear you
With the weight of the pain.
Loss plucks at the silken net,
Our web of support getting shattered further
Each time a thread is lost.
Now we carry their weight,
Left with the memory of mislaid hope.
Left to make sense of defective lives.
We are the sum of our experiences,
But these should not define us.
We do what other's won't;
Look after ourselves
Nurture, hold, and sit in wonder
Marvelling at our unique expression.
