dear pink floyd so the package arrived ta very much it took fifty years it’s a time capsule treasure chest message in a bottle tied to a life buoy thrown on a life raft from a ghost ship I held it up to the sun it set fire to my handshake I looked through the hole in the middle it was a pinhole camera focussing starlight I got its vinyl whirlpools to orbit the spindle I landed the lunar explorer of the stylus in its furthest borderlands it all came cascading back pink floyd you had such long hair pink floyd I saw you playing pompeii the departed climbed out of their hollows to stare the buried rose from their ashen sarcophagi to nod their heads hold hands make love pink floyd I was there when you played el dorado machu picchu valhalla the gods were gobsmacked I watched and witnessed when you played the hanging gardens of babylon the crown of kilimanjaro when you played the mariana trench and the see-through fish pulsed ultraviolet did ya ever think how many ears you’d worm your way into pink floyd can I be in yer band didst thou imagine the millions of minds you’d drift in and out of you killed classical music with one strum good riddance you fashioned soundtracks for deeeeep dreams did astrophysics without the numbers philosophy without the words made atoms vibrate in bones and brains I saw you pink floyd playing proxima centauri in far space the universe sat cross legged or did its zombie trance dance you caused light to bend you fucked with gravity pink floyd you wished I was here I was there all along still am in the wings back stage with the blissed up mob at the front with the zoned out hippy punks at the back with the fat cat faceless suits smoking a torpedo stogie behind musicproof glass you’re a white dog in the studio pink floyd you had such long long hair did it ever enter your skulls you could tilt the world with noise you could massage a heart with a note pink floyd you found the resonant frequency of the human soul what you sang is etched what chords you struck are carved I eavesdropped this album on day one it had shape I gave it a big spin at twenny five years it had being and grain I’m listening now half a century on it has form and dimension it is absence replaced by presence fulfilment undone by longing pink floyd I saw your shows in arcadia in narnia at the magnetic south pole at angkor wat in the umber shadow of uluru in atlantis when I was the nut job jumping on stage and you told the heavies to leave me be let me float and sway you had such beautiful long long long hair o my pink floyders I was there in the studio smudging the typed sheets with inky digits dickering with faders squishing my face to the glass sleeping in the synth sweeping the outtakes into a placcy bag and dear mister pink floyds this bit’s the gospel truth I saw a kid in a wywh tee shirt so far up the amazon even the trees were lost I saw a woman slapping a sopping wet floyd hoodie on a flat rock on the banks of the ganges I heard welcome to the machine behind the door of an arctic rescue hut heard have a cigar spiralling up the iron stairwell of some victorian jail pink floyd you were just guys doing mortal work but jeezo this record is compass and clock and consciousness rolled into one it’s the forty four minute five second guide to eternity it’s infinity measured in five songs so come on you proggers you psychos you players you dazzle you shimmer you shine sincerely yours sincerely all the mad sapphires barmy emeralds loopy rubies crazy diamonds over and over and out x ps which one's pink ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha h

Simon Armitage

Created by UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, Dear Pink Floyd celebrates the timeless connection between the band and their fans. Write your own Dear Pink Floyd letter, poem, or memory and join fans around the world in honoring the music that shaped us.