Longest Day 6 June 1944

I’m just an old man in a blazer Here to try and tell the truth About that longest longest day That brought an end to my youth. No heroic thoughts as I struggled up the sand Into the chaos of that Foreign and alien land, Just a sense of confusion, Panic, mind numbing fear, A sense of bewilderment wondering why am I here. Somehow it ended, I managed to survive One of the lucky ones Who left that beach alive. For years the sleepless nights The sense of horror in my head Guilt At still being here when So many friends were dead. So, many years later and I have Treasured every single day Loved every minute of a life that so Easily could have been taken away. Just an old man in a blazer Here to try and tell the truth About that cruel longest day that Brought an end to my youth.