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song - Snow on the River (i)

It was back when skies were bluer and hearts were worn on sleeves
I’d fallen for the first time, into love head over heels
I might as well have carved my love upon the breaking waves
It vanished in an instant but kept me as its slave

You were dancing in a discotheque behind old Eldon Street
The wars of love were almost done but kept us on our feet
I wore McKenzie’s tartan to the drumming of retreat
I knew too well that one more touch would lead me to defeat

Once I found your image traced on the surface of the Cree
You said I’ll marry you if you’ll drift with me to the sea
I pledged my soul by wind and sun that I would never stray
But you wouldn’t leave the river and, my love, I couldn’t stay

It was long ago on Gibson Street and you were on my arm
In snowflakes falling on your hair outside the shishmahal
I saw forever in your eyes to music in your voice
Before I realised that I would have to make a choice

In the winter now I hear the waves calling out your name
And through the Kirk of Inch I’ve chased your shadow to the gate
I dream a face in photofit before me where I sit
At last I think I recognise who the photo fits

You were hiding in a novel set beneath another sun
Two spinning moons were in the sky and you were on the run
You had the gift of prophecy and you'd bled the sacred cow
All your words flowed into mine but I can’t find you in them now

From the Ice Rink bar down town once we watched the curlers play
They played just through the glass but might have been a world away
Your lips and thighs in passion’ s rush soon torched that winter’s nights
You would have been the one, love, if the choice had been just mine

You’re a river running under but sometimes you burst through
The locks and walls I’d raised against those moments lost in you
And sweep me through The Bridge of Sighs, through flames by Fairhurst Road
And still my words must fail you.............. in this humble ode

poem by Jim Hogg
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