Experience - A Poem Dedicated To My Father Poem by Bill Grace

Dad told me during World War Two
Of an incident he personally knew
Where air ship, personnel and crew
Were saved by their pilot's experience.

The engine quit on take off
The plane had only two
The pilot dipped the failed wing
And turned to field to safely land.

Dad cared for planes in that great war
He is no longer with us in his burly form
But he would celebrate that pilot
Who cared for 150 and even more
Had the wisdom to put his aircraft in the drink
In hope it would not untimely sink
Enabled the care and rescue that so many gave
Goodness upon our planet that outlasts the grave.