The water laps against the hull Just like that time before Just like that Sunday morning That exploded into war. In these old eyes That yet can see Those waves of rising Suns, A tear wells up In memory for those forever young. Below my feet My brothers’ lie; Proud Arizona’s crew. For a time I have Escaped their fate But now my days are few. and when I die, I’ll make my grave In Pearl, beneath the Sea. Then all we suffered Will be lost to living memory.
( An aging veteran of Pearl Harbor, alone with his thoughts and memories, at the 76st Anniversary of the day of infamy)