<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420142" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>PEARL, the Aftermath</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TAP, TAP, TAP- Over here! Over here! <br>We hear their frantic tapping., <br>sailors trapped in the capsized ship<br>with the water levels rising.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We work with acetylene Torches, <br>work quickly as the December sun dies.<br>The smell of blood and oil mixes<br>I'm too numb to let myself cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Work is my only salvation<br>for me and the men down below.<br>I am racing with time to their rescue<br>A race I might lose even so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tap, tap, tap, the sound growing fainter<br>some sailors have died as they wait<br>Others survive, breathing foul air<br>Praying for deliverance from fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My naked back glistens with Sweat<br>as we manage a breech in the hull<br>I grasp the hand of a survivor, <br>a stranger who now I knew well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun settles red in the West<br>A red ball like I saw on the planes.<br>Yet Pearl is not totally dark<br>we continue to work by its flames</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420142" data-title="PEARL, the Aftermath de John F. McCullagh" data-description="TAP, TAP, TAP- Over here! Over here! We hear their frantic tapping., sailors trapped in the capsized ship with the water levels rising. We work with acetylene Torches, work quickly as the December sun dies. The smell of blood and oil mixes I'm..."></div> </div> </div>

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