Brothers on Diamir - Edenbridge

The Kashmir sky

The biggest face in snow

Sixteen thousand feet

Reaching from top to toe

A sight of blinding splendor

When destiny calls

Straight on the path to fame

The king has broken a bond

The summit calls their names

Before the voice trailed away in silence

Before he was swept away

(Brother, death and loneliness)

He’s crawling

He’s falling

He is desperately unclear

He’s tracing, effacing

The memory of Diamir

The western wall

A fateful call

No answer, no warning

Just fear for a brother on Diamir

A gleam of hope, racked with pain

The way to cope, when brothers remain

Woebegone, the pangs of remorse

On and on, to follow the force

The summit alone, the ghost of a chance

The venture so unknown, a fading romance

In the presence of danger, the tag-end of will

The claws of a stranger, can stroke or can kill

Enshrine the memory, surmounting the fear

It’s an icebound tragedy, the fate of Diamir

The veil of oblivion of blood, tears and sweat

Out of a clear sky as his sun is set

Pay the last honors, thoughts range the past

Hold on in remembrance, memories that last

Goodbye