Being in the Crowd

(RNAS  Culdrose)

Did you feel the rush
in your body?  Do you
really see what you see?
Are you awake enough
and non-complacent to
feel and live and be?
Did you experience the
afterburn, the roar the
wave the heat? Or did you
sit on your seat
ignoring it? Did you
notice the boom in your
chest, the wing, the
reeling as that
machine left the
ground and flew?
Do you know the you
that is you?

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