AND SO WE MUST MOURN

A MEMORIAL TO A NATION IN MOURNING FOR THE DANA AIRLINE PLANE CRASH AND THE CHURCH BOMBINGS ON SUNDAY 3RD OF JUNE 2012

IT WAS ANOTHER OF THOSE SUNDAYS

WHERE BEING GAY IS FORBIDDEN ON SUCH DAYS

EVEN WHEN OUR EAGLES DARE TO SOAR

A NATION'S TEARS MUST POUR 

ANOTHER BEAST FLYING SO HIGH

AND DOWN IT CAME TO LIE

CATASTROPHICALLY UNMANNERED 

SPAT OUT FROM THE SKY UNPAMPERED  

AN IRON MONSTER

WITH OVER 150 IN A CLUSTER

AT SOME DWELLING PLACE

TURNED INTO A DYING BASE

OF A PEOPLE ON A JOURNEY

A JOURNEY MAPPED WITH A TURNING

NOT MEANT FOR THE LIVING

LEAVING A NATION QUIVERING

EVEN FOR THE UNWELCOMING HOST

REMINDING A PEOPLE OF A PAST GHOST 

NEARLY HUSHING THE BOOM FROM THE NORTH

ANOTHER HORROR OF TERROR COME FORTH

OUR FLAGS ARE WEIGHED DOWN HALFMAST

THREE DAYS OF MOURNING NOT HALFPAST

ADIEUS, O YE DOOMED OF FATE

ALL YE THAT WE MUST REFER TO AS LATE

OH LIKE A TATTERED CLOTH, OUR JOY IS TORN

AND SO WE MUST MOURN

BY ALEX