April Photo Prompt: Why Them?

Of all the events

through all of history,

why them?

Lütjens

Lindemann

Bismarck

What special power

do they hold?

Smith

Murdoch

Titanic

Capturing an imagination,

fuelling an obsession

Holland

Tovey

Hood

Hours of research,

miles travelled

Leach

Wake-Walker

Prince of Wales

Is it in his DNA,

this need to connect?

Years pass,

memories fade

but still he clings

to these names

Bey

Burnett

Scharnhorst

Lifebelts anchoring him

in the past.

Dönitz

Tallboy

Tirpitz

Family connections

to a world that once was

an unconscious longing

for one he never knew?

Langsdorff

Harwood

Graf Spee

Sunday afternoons

Late eighties TV

recreated

on a Friday

Gibson

Barnes-Wallace

Lancaster

Encouraging

without understanding,

of all the events

through all of history,

why them?