IN MEMORIAM CAPT. EMILE JAYAWARDENA – By Elmo Jayawardena

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IN MEMORIAM CAPT. EMILE JAYAWARDENA – By Elmo Jayawardena

IN MEMORIAM CAPT. EMILE JAYAWARDENA - By Elmo Jayawardena

 

IN OUR HOME TOWN OF MORATUWA

PEOPLE  ALWAYS CALLED HIM CAPTAIN

HE FLEW SPITFIRES AND DAKOTAS

 IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF AVIATION

I CERTAINLY COULD NEVER BE THE PILOT HE WAS

I PROBABLY WOULD NEVER BE AS GOOD A HUMAN BEING EITHER

I WOULD ONLY BE THE CAPTAIN’S SON

I WISH I COULD TELL HIM THIS, BUT I CAN’T

HE IS LONG GONE

THAT IS WHAT IS SO SAD ABOUT IT

 I’M SURE THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES

WITH THINGS UNSAID, WOULD KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

 

CAPT.ELMO JAYAWARDENA

elmojay1@gmail.com

 

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