SHOF 2025

As I stand up here this evening

Commemorating my love for our Rolling Art

My heart rejoices but far too soon remorses

the day that the skateboard World and I will part

 

My Skateboarding will have no ending!

my defiant heart cries out

In its refusal to surrender it continues

as it then begins to shout

I'll love you Skateboarding

I will love you

 

Until the concrete has all turned to dust

I'll love you Skateboarding
I will love you

Until the steel coping has disintegrated

from eons of rust

 

The years shall chicane

like a snakerun

Turning from side to side

Instead of hammering ahead to be done

 

We are not yet near our last Waltz

For the love for you that I hold

Is above and beyond the industry

timelessly eternal and bold

 

But then the Clock atop the Tower

'Ol Ben begins to whir and chime

"Do not let time evade you

You cannot override time"

 

In the crossboards supporting the transitions

Where justice naked Is

Time lingers in the shadows

And slams you despite your bliss

 

In self-doubt and hesitation

halfheartedly life leaks away

And time will have his fancy

tomorrow or today
 

Onto many a masonited halfpipe

drifts the dreadful snow

Time cracks that smooth riding surface

which once so powerfully flowed

 

The pools get filled with water

The bowls filled with sand

Oh dive, dive into the water-logged basin

Grasp at the transitions with your weightless hand

 

My kneepads mold in the basement

my back moans and groans in the bed

and the crack in the Poolblock opens

a lane to the land of the dead

 

Where the backstabbers reel in the bank notes

The two-faced are glorified by Photogs

Where It's the Sponsors that determine who's exalted

And only the common skaters elevate the Underdogs

 

It's getting late, late in the evening

Yes my competitive skateboarding might be gone

Big Ben has ceased it's chiming

But my love for Skateboarding Rolls on

 

 

By Benjamin Schroeder