Did you know
As the storm clouds gathered over France
And though terror was met with resistance
In your gut, there was a voice whispering
We might be next?
Cheerio and be back soon
Did you know
As you made the bold choice to stay back
Urging them instead to voyage to safer shores
That you were altering destiny?
Cheerio and be back soon
Did you know
As you forged those letters, strung that chain
And watched the weathered ship set sail from the shores
Becoming ever smaller on the Scouse horizon
That dangers lurked beneath those dark seas and in the skies above?
Cheerio and be back soon
Did you know
As they docked beneath Lady Liberty
And travelled across the land of the free towards the Hollywood sign
That the spectre you’d feared would ultimately
Not transpire?
Cheerio and be back soon
Did you know
As they settled beneath the palm trees and orange groves
And delivered new life on Wiltshire Boulevard
That perhaps your story might end before
You could hold that new baby’s little hand?
Cheerio and be back soon
Did you know
As you presented her with that golden word
That it’d pass from generation to generation
All because you made a bold choice?
Cheerio and be back soon
Did you know
That eighty-something years later
After returning to those shores of origin
The wars long passed, the spectre gone
Yet six million murdered
That another would cherish these letters strung together with a delicate chain
Ironically, back on the other coast.
Cheerio and be back soon
Keeping the Glass Half Full 