Icebound

from Artless by Dave Banks

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lyrics

When I was young. In the days of my youth
We’d skate about on the ice of friendship.
Sliding, whooping and joyful.
Sure – sometimes we’d collide, bobble hats flying
And collapse on the ice in a tangle of limbs.
But always safe, knowing that the pond was solid.
Full inches five of frozen floor, separating us
From the mulchy pike-filled depths.
And we’d pick ourselves from the shards of our fall,
Brush each other down and head off home for
Horlicks and to dry our sodden mittens on the stove.

But now that I am grown, the evil days have come.
The weather is awry and the climate is a-changing.
The ice of friendship has waned thin. And
Now it seems to creak and glint alarmingly.
I dare not venture from the shore. For fear
A wayward step or misplaced blade will shatter all.
And the murk will take me, and frozen floor become a roof
Of glass and bubbles and embedded leaves from autumn’s oaks.
We skate around the issues, not the ice. Our glory days behind,
Iron Lotus unfulfilled. The air is damp with unuttered truths
That we dare not tell. It looks like rain and soon the
Hyperborean realm will become just pond life.
And the pike rise to the surface.

© Dave Banks 2020

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from Artless, released May 14, 2022
Poem read by Dave Banks
Recorded by Dave Banks at home in Chesterfield
Mastered by Tom Nash

UK-DVB-22-00006

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Dave Banks Chesterfield, UK

Dave Banks is a songwriter and musician from Chesterfield, UK. He has also played in "The Sedatives". "Me and Mr Jones" and "Poke O'Swedgers"

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