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

Resolute

July 5, 2026

Resolute,
and confused,
sometimes,
sometimes not,
in realms that I do not know,
feeling lost and alone,
and unhappy without you,
and with you,
on the other end of the telephone,
and with me often,
working away,
in somewhere that I do not know,
and with me not truly happy,
but working myself to the bone,
working myself to the bone,
alone,
alone in a foreign country somewhere,
somewhere mostly for where I do not care,
oh, how tiresome it is,
and how lonely I feel,
so far away from you,
and really missing you,
and though I earn good money,
and lots of money,
what good is it,
and how can it ever be worth it,
when,
I never get to spend any real time with you.