Desire the Right ( Dedicated to my shipmates and all who wear the South Atlantic medal with pride. But especially those 255 who are on eternal patrol) April 2nd was the day , All the papers had to say At 20 years old, you had better learn to pray The day before was no joke, I was just a normal bloke Tomorrow would be, The man in me, that awoke The next 10 weeks would prove to be, Life changing times upon the Sea We had to sail, And set them Free Swiftly, the Lady decreed, Retíraos, or find yourselves besieged My land and people, Will be retrieved For I have sent a powerful might, To visit thee in dead of night You really won’t want, To fight THAT fight A deaf ear, they turned, The offer spurned There were about to be, Several lessons learned Who Dares Wins arrived with stealth, To wrestle back the Islands wealth And restore the land, To perfect health But not without a woeful cost, As the Steel City was sadly lost And to the depths, Twenty lives were tossed, The same fate came to several more Whilst keeping safe all those ashore, Two hundred and fifty five souls….. ..Labelled ‘Casualties of War’ City of 3 spires, then fell, Sounding again, that same death knell Antelope and Ardent adrift, when next, death cast his ugly spell Jumping jets were jumping high, Then standing still in deep blue sky Wreaking destruction, with measured eye 14th June when silence reigned, What was lost was now regained But at a cost, Every man forever pained The memory of this righteous fight, Empire blue, sea green and white Restored the Islands, ‘Desire the Right’ A poem written by Lowen Pengoose – 13 May 2020 ex RN