If you should die in battle,
I just want you to know:
That without you in our lives,
Clocks are ticking much too slow.

If tomorrow starts without you,
A part of me will die.
If you never come back home,
An ocean will fall from my eyes.

If you die on foreign soil,
And our house is no longer a home,
I’ll be living, breathing,
But never alive, only alone.

Every day, I miss you,
And I wish you were here with me.
It’s really not very fair
How you were taken by the sea.

Mum misses you every minute, every day,
She’s a shadow of who you love.
She struggles to survive each day,
Knowing you’re in heaven up above.

My children will never meet you,
Now you’re not here to watch them grow,
But, when they point to pictures of you,
I’ll say, ‘My Daddy, my hero.’