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

Reticence and recalcitrance

July 5, 2026

Reticence and recalcitrance,
two partners in belligerence,
that will not move and will not bend,
and do not make any sense,
and though you may talk and talk,
some people's mentalities are stuck in a rut,
but how will things change if you cannot comprehend,
and how will things bring any understanding,
of such problems that the world may have today,
for some people are loath to listen, and loath to understand,
but I baulk at them, and I persevere,
for what is this rigidity,
what is this rigidity,
that brings you out into such a fear?