Fighter Pilot
FIGHTER PILOT
So you are a fighter pilot in one of today’s latest jets.
Tell me what it is like to fly, to fight and to die in the air?
All of the crushing g-forces and dizzying changes
of direction happening all at once.
I bet that there’s no glory in your battles,
only pain, mutilation and death.
But this is your game, an aerial ballet
of chess where the victors come home
and the vanquished cease to exist.
I’d like to see what you see just for a day,
to experience what it is like to be a fighter pilot.
Copyright © Nick Armbrister Jimmy Boom Semtex | Year Posted 2014
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