War - Ww1 - Seeing Peter Pan Poem by Paul Warren

Saint Dunstan's Hospital for blinded soldiers and sailors
Was in Regent's Park, London and by 1916 had a full house
Of 150 blinded servicemen who were taught how to survive
After being blinded in the Great War battles across the world

Signaller Edward Penn was a digger who had lost his sight
On the Turkish Gallipoli shore as The Landing was made
Penn was to return to Melbourne soon and wouldn't return
And he desperately wanted to see Peter Pan's statue nearby

So one Sunday he was taken via the Notting Hill Gate
And walked to Peter Pan where the soldier placed his hands
All over the statue taking the the stone carving completely in
Nearby watching the scene, two ladies watched, quietly crying.

© Paul Warren Poetry