Lucky to Survive:

[Administrator]

Lucky to Survive.

"They told me I was so lucky to survive" "
I believed them because I was alive ".

The U-boats found us in those frozen seas, and cold freezing wintery blasts,
Leaving your mangled bodies in sea, oil, blood, and ice, floating past.

"They told me I was so lucky to survive" "
I believed them because I was alive"

Yet when I look around the country today
everything seems in such a disarray,
Truth, freedom, honour, and integrity, for
which they fought and died

Now mocked, spinned, trashed, and
contemptuously despised.

My memories grow old and weary in
the dim distant past

"Oh" how I long for that comradeship
once in our grasp

"They told me I was so lucky to survive"

If those words are really true,
Why do I long for that distant haven with all of you?

Poem by Tom Pim.