Tragedy struck at dawning <br />when skies were overcast... <br />suddenly without warning <br />the boat was sinking fast. <br /> <br />The Captain and his working crew <br />went down with the ship that day; <br />in the middle of the mighty ocean <br />hundreds of nautical miles away. <br /> <br />There was such a morbid stillness <br />above that deep sea-bed, <br />as crying sea-birds gathered <br />to pay homage to the dead. <br /> <br />The roll of mariners lost at sea <br />'Cyberspace' will never know, <br />as the sinking of that Spanish vessel <br />happened long years ago. <br /> <br />Yet birds still swoop and hover <br />screeching their fond farewells <br />to those brave, heroic seamen <br />who died in the 'fires of hell'.<br /><br />Joyce Hemsley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fires-of-hell/
