The bloody beach
Of Normandy
Calls him back
One last time
Old age it deems
He sees
Friends resting places
Gravestones side by side.
The memories
Of that landing
Now blood
Has washed away
The guts
The pain
The madness
He has the need to say.
If I ever
In a brightening dawn
Or sunset in
The sky
Pay homage to
The fallen
Still
I wonder why.
I lived
When my brothers
Died
Upon that fateful day
Blood spilled
Upon that beach
So far, so far
Away.