Airfield

[warshipbuilder]

Found this on FB.

Airfield.

The biting wind long forgotten,
Why should we remember?
Control tower - it's job long since done,
A monument to another time,
Why should we remember?
Runway - weed strewn and unwanted,
Why should we care?
Its life blood long since gone,
The life which was mostly death,
Why should we care?
Nissen hut empty and cold,
And nobody wants to know,
Broken glass replaced broken hearts,
An uneasy silence where death prevailed,
And nobody wants to know.
Old man stands awhile at runways end,
His eyes tell so many things,
Tired old man - his spirit of youth long since gone,
Destroyed by events so long ago,
To him like yesterday,
Wipes away a tear - the memory all too clear,
And now his life almost done,
He returns one last time because he remembers,
He cares,
He knows.