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Where Are They |
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Where are the veterans
of World War Two
Those old men...
with whom time is through?
Those very old sailors
who manned the ships at sea...
back in the deep and wide Pacific
in the war years around 1943?
Let me tell you where they are...
they're all in 'dry dock'
with their ghostly crews...
fixin' engines and polishing screws!
Some sailors are still looking
in the depths of the raging sea
for long departed sailors...
who paid the price of Liberty!
Those old aviators who flew
the fighters and mighty B-29
are gathered round old hardstands
loading their planes line on line...
Rev the engines, plot the course
three thousand miles to fly...
always with enemy Zeroes
and awful flak-filled sky...
They know that some will not return
for some will crash and burn...
and eleven men in some twenty nines
will ditch in bays, which they've mined!
If, in their distress, they send an SOS
and no Super Dumbo hears their call...
eleven men will likely
perish where they fall...
Some sleep on the ocean floor
never flying any more...
they will join the sailors all
who paid the price of Freedom's call!
So sailors, airmen, marines who
served in World War Two...
Time is no longer our friend
for "Time" has done us in.
By the hundreds every day
undertakers put us away...
to join the thousands who died
in bloody battles fought in pride... |
By
C. Douglas Caffey
Copyright 2004
Listed April
2, 2009 |
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Author's Bio:
C. Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He
served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group,
58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States
Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic
bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in
the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug
is a former college dean. He started writing poetry
several years ago and though he doesn't claim to be a
poet, he does claim to write from the heart. |
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