Cyril and Sid (remembered)
Today I remembered Cyril and Sid:
Veterans of the Second World War;
They knew what they had to do, and they did.
In ‘seventy seven, I was a kid,
And they were kids back in ‘forty four;
Today I remembered Cyril and Sid.
Kept in a box, with a tightly bound lid:
Old memories of whatever they saw;
They knew what they had to do, and they did.
Feelings connected with battle they hid,
Like guarded oaths, to which they both swore;
Today I remembered Cyril and Sid.
On Normandy’s beaches, their lives were bid;
Brothers in arms on a bloodied shore;
They knew what they had to do, and they did.
Long ago soldiers, standing amid
Old conscripts, living, or with us no more;
Today I remembered Cyril and Sid;
They knew what they had to do, and they did.
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