For Those Who Have Heard Nick Drake'S Music

[Coleman]

today i was looking through the tv guide and found out that a movie talking about Nick drakes life on sundance. The Movie is called A skin to few: The days of Nick Drake. I watched it and found it very depressing and haunting. But it taught me lots about him. I found a poem by his mother and thought i would share it.

The Shell

Living grows 'round us like a skin
to shut away the desolation
for if we clearly mark the furthest deep
we should be dead long years before the grave

But turning around within
the homely shell of worry, discontent
and narrow joy
we grow and flourish
and rarely see the outside dark
that would confound our eyes

Some break the shell
I think that there are those
who push their fingers through the brittle walls
and make a hole
and through that cruel slit
stare out across the cinders of the world
with naked eyes
They look both in and out
knowing themselves
and too much else beside
BY Molly Drake