By Heather Flood
I was 18, on a boat with my mate Tommy, sailing
out to sea.
If my dear old dad Bill knew, he would be so
proud of me.
He died in the First World War, torpedoed with
his crew,
They were protecting the ships, that brought the
food, for you.
The day came when we also went to fight, and
said goodbye to our mums,
“See you, and don’t worry, we’ll look after each
other, we’re chums.”
It was now our turn, we had to go, kit bags at
the ready,
in stormy seas, with my weak knees, it wasn’t
easy to keep steady.
We went to war, feeling quite scared, sailing
from Plymouth Quay.
Two young boys, who’d joined the Navy, my
mate Tommy and me.
We heard the guns, we saw the planes roaring
overhead,
But I didn’t see the bullet that shot poor Tommy
dead.
He paid the price, bless his heart, I could not
save my friend.
We’d both been willing to fight side by side until
the very end.
No time to grieve, or shed a tear, for Tommy, the
mate I’d lost,
Just one of the boys who died that day. What a
terrible cost.
I’m an old man now, sailing back to France, in
the choppy sea.
Remembering when I went to war, with Tommy
from Plymouth Quay.
As we approach the beach today, there’s no
bodies bobbing around.
The water is clean, no blood to be seen and no
one dead on the ground.
Now we sail once more to remember, and salute
you with pride and regret.
The friends we lost, in the sea they were tossed,
as if we could ever forget.
* This award-winning poem is among those in the book Laughs and Tears Galore – Stories and Poems with Twists by Heather and Tony Flood, which is available on https://www.amazon.co.uk/LAUGHS-TEARS-GALORE-Stories-twists/dp/B09VG3SHC7/ref=the-write-site-21
Author Bio:
Heather Flood writes in several genres. She and her husband and fellow author Tony Flood conjure up humour, pathos, love, nostalgia and a load of surprises in their latest jointly written book LAUGHS AND TEARS GALORE! Stories and Poems with Twists. Oh, and there’s some trickery as well!
Heather’s first book was MOUSEY MOUSEY AND THE WITCHES’ SPELLS which proved so popular that it turned into a series.
Fellow authors love Heather’s wonderfully original characters, including the delightful Mousey Mousey, interfering witch Agatha, talking rabbits, a naughty polecat, an adorable squirrel and a prickly porcupine schoolteacher – plus Agatha’s smelly pals Stinkblob and Mouldy Knickers..
Heather, whose books have figured in the top five of their respective Amazon categories, and has also written a collection of short stories in GIANT STICKER MONSTER AND OTHER CHILDREN’S STORIES.
She followed this with science fiction fantasy PURPLE MIST – AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD ADVENTURE! about a girl called Annique who gets bullied at school, but discovers that she has amazing powers.
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