The Big Weekend 2019 - Friday

I wake up.. was I asleep? It's Friday. It's still dark. It's 6am at Castlecliff. My supported accommodation, • A fortress of a place. Wind driven clouds from the north race above. Too high to be heard. But it'll be cold up there. Silence sits all around, here below. shelter from the night. In what little warmth the shelter offers. Down in my room at Castlecliff I keep all of that out. I slept the streets many years. I used to look up at castlecliff in my teens. Smoking down on the grassmarket daffodils and the grassy summer slopes. A dark forbidding tower, no doubt. Over-hanging the steepest castle rocks- sheer rocks. I'd look up whenever I was hopping about that side of the Royal Mile. People would jump the outside railings from one story to another. On a mission to cross and bypass the security. Hanging down from the outside walkways. Drugs. Hopping down railings and risking a high fkin fall. Just how it was. It'd be something that id be considering...