Germanwings

Not back as yet just deeply touched!

 

Germanwings

They set off in innocence;

the innocence of youth.

Their exuberance,

their desire for life,

expressed in teenage musings

across the internet.

Linguistic intentions

to break down the barriers

between two great nations,

to learn to speak a neighbour's tongue.

But fate decreed that eight days

of friendship should end

in a gorge,

a remote grey place,

not a place of hope,

the Galebre Valley

high in the French Alps

where sixteen German children

found their own wings.

 

25/03/15

Reviews

[Chris]

I understand being touched...so many lives for one persons choice... sigh

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Yes Chris, you are right, as more has come out about this tragedy it has taken an even sadder form. Many thanks for reviewing.

[Kelly Scheppers]

I could not believe the horror of this when I heard it on the news! Oh my God, all of those people, gone...and for what?

Your wording was most palpable, John...and your closing was stunning!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

It is even more unbelievable Kelly now we know it was a deliberate act by the co pilot. I only hope that all the people affected can find peace and solace somehow. It was imagining it was one of my children that triggered this write.

[wordman]

a story of fate amongst our young during war,a good point made here

[John Alexander McFadyen]

This is a tribute to sixteen innocent teenagers killed when a madman crashed a commercial aircraft into the French Alps.

[wordman]

sad,but these crazy fools will always be around,like the crash yesterday