Acrostichon - Isopoda

Ice grew thick upon the water, no little chance to make a gap

Snowmen growing by the storm, swaying swords and menacing straps

Only a very good fighter could get through this white falanx

Possibly too the sun could destroy it, but that bitch kept hiding herself

On our side and lack of spirit, some of us even shaking with fear

Dozens of dangers still increasing, we saw our luck wasn’t near

As though a muse had entered into our dying minds

Something excited our tongues, made us sing loud

Will this be the end of us?

Shall we give up trying, all of us?

Oh no, we must not cowardly

Leave all the friends we used to have

All that we heard was our sad complaint

If we don’t raise our heads we’ll be killed

Now what should a man be like if he weren’t

Strong enough to pull himself together

Weak as we were we found it so hard

To follow the right way to make up our minds

But at the moment of complete despair

The voice we were waiting for shouted

How could you ever break through just lying down there!

Oh Lord, is it You who are speaking up there?

We shall never behave cowardly

Thanks to You we’ll be brave and we’ll never give in!

Where’s that dirty snowman, I’m gonna crush his head

You just take the other one, and beat him to death

After this we’ll run, the sun will do her job

We gonna break the ice, and no-one will get lost

So we thought, and fleeing on the flow

We were finally facing our release

And just when our hands could reach the shore

Turned our faces backwards to the lake

There were cries for help coming out of the mist

All we saw was just a body bound to drown

Struggling for breath it went down into the deep

Pale turned our faces, watching bubbles rise

All distressed, weeping just like kids

Pulling each other upon the shore

We found out there was one solution left

We must go on fighting evermore

If you read this acrostic a few times on your own

You will grasp what’s been done

Before the tunes of a new song were born