"Two Minute Silence" by Daphne Sparks

“I stood by the harbour on remembrance morning
Confined in sombre silence
Except for the cry of the curlew winging onward
Like the plane that took you from me

I stood by a cornfield on the moonlit evening
Night as Light as day
Watched the grey plane winging from me
Into cloudless sky

No kindly cover from marauding monsters
Or searching beams of light
Or lethal spats of death that played around you
Intent on devil’s mischief

I stand again in bright trembling cornfield
Whispering its low lament
Hear the curlew’s cry like woman weeping
On that night of no return.”

—Daphne Sparks.