Frank Halliwell, FLIGHT 4590</head><body><center><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.com/p1.gif border=0 alt=Saviodsilva></center><hr color=3C00FF size=4><br><font size=4 face=arial><b><a href=83.htm>Frank Halliwell</a></b></font><br><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.net/poem/a/1.JPG border=0 alt=Poem></center><br><font size=3 face=arial><b>FLIGHT 4590</a></b></font></center><blockquote><blockquote><p align=left><font face=arial size=2><b>Proud icon of our modern world<br> Our stratosphere explored.<br> She flexed her mighty muscles<br> While her power surged and roared.<br> The brakes released, she raced along<br> Swept by the turbines' wrath<br> But just ahead, a strip of metal<br> Lay within her path.<br> A tire pierced quickly explodes..<br> The shrapnel from the wheel<br> Can not be stopped by aircraft skin<br> Destroyed by shards of steel.<br> A ruptured fuel tank quickly spills<br> Its vapour to the air<br> Ignited there by hot exhaust<br> It streams out in a flare!<br> Two engines starved of fuel shut down<br> The hand of fate is nigh...<br> Her speed too fast to hope to stop..<br> ..Too slow to reach the sky!<br> She struggled from the runway<br> And clawed to gain some height<br> With tongues of flame streaming behind<br> She seems a dismal sight.<br>We see a crippled aeroplane<br>A hundred souls inside<br>People with friends and goals and hopes<br>That now will be denied!<br> They looked out of the window<br> And saw within the frame<br> Their fate was written on the wind<br> In smoke and yellow flame.<br> A mile or two of struggle<br> And then the fatal stall<br> The crash to earth, and then the fire<br> The final smoking pall...<br> I watched it and the world watched too<br> I couldn't look away!<br> I fear that I will always see<br> The horror of that day!</b></font></p></blockquote></blockquote><hr color=0000ca size=3><center><font size=2 face=arial><b><a href=http://www.isavo.net/poem/sk1.htm>This Poem's Index Page 1</a><br><a href=http://www.yensa.net/poem/sk1.htm>This Poem's Index 2</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com/poems.htm>Poetry Website</a><br><a href=http://www.saviodsilva.com>Saviodsilva</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com>Isavo Site</a></b></font></center><SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.saviodsilva.org/r/fantasy.js></SCRIPT></body></html>