Thank you so much to everyone at the M.O.D and the RAF and to all who have kindly supported my writing.

Go, go, go

July 5, 2026

Go, go, go,
go once more for me,
for I am dying,
and as I lay here in my bed,
touch the Earth,
touch the Earth with your hands,
and please, bring me some of it,
the Earth that put a smile upon my face,
the Earth that meant so much to me,
and though,
and though I will never see it again,
whilst alive please bury me in it overlooking the sea,
because I am of the Earth,
and when I am dead,
please take me home,
take me home to where I should be,
in the Earth,
in the Earth forever more where I will sleep for eternity,
where I will sleep,
to the sound of the waves and the crashing of the sea.