A MEMORIAL TO A NATION THAT MOURNED FOR THE DANA AIRLINE PLANE CRASH AND THE CHURCH BOMBINGS OF SUNDAY 3RD OF JUNE 2012
As posted on June 4, 2012:
AND SO WE MUST MOURN
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