C. Douglas Caffey Poem

Graveyard at the Bottom of the Sea

There is a graveyard

at the bottom

of the sea

where soldiers

sailors

and

marines

are never ever seen!

Airmen too

who fell from the

sky

to plunge a mile

deep.

What a place to

die

for no one can visit

the site,

day or night

and there are no

tombstones

to notify

that their bones

are contained therein.

No one has ever visited

the site

to pay their

respects for they are

out of bounds

to those of us who walk

the grounds

where they too once

walked.

Sweethearts and mothers

sisters and

brothers

miss them so

and have missed them

since they fought

the foe

long time ago

along

Iron Bottom Sound

where so many ships are

found

with their guns loaded

looking to fire

another

round

while sailors,

who love the sea

keep watch

still for the enemy

who did them

in

sending them to a

watery and

lonely grave

beneath

the towering wave

so high above

yet the scene is

surreal

and peaceful like

where mermaids tease

the once virile

men

with their long flowing

hair

as though the young

men could make

love to them

there

and pledge their

faithfulness

and their thoughts

of fidelity

fair.

It is a different world

beneath the

deep blue

sea

buried for an

eternity

in a graveyard where

grows no grass

so green,

nor where not ever a

loved one is

seen,

nothing to do but guard

the remains of

a great ship

awaiting the judgment

day

when up from the waters

below

God will call them

everyone

to rise up to meet the

sun

of a new day

by His grace for He knows

where they

lay

and how much they have

given for Freedom

in the graveyard

at the

bottom of

the sea!