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Passing the Rope

 
A frozen day
A snow storm
Visibility problematic
A chunk of metal
Full of people
Falls from the sky
Air Florida flight 90
Crashes into the bridge
The 14th Street Bridge
Crashes into the water
Into the black Potomac
Only the tail is visible
Everyone else is dead
Frozen water all around
6 survivors in the water
A woman screams
Where is my baby
There is no baby
It’s already gone
Six people went
Into the frozen water
A helicopter arrives
Arland Williams
Soon to known as
“The man in the water”
Passes the rope
The rescue rope
The only lifeline
He passes it
To total strangers
So that they
Might get saved
All get saved
Apart from the
“The man in the water”
He succumbs
He sadly becomes
The man under the water
Sacrificing himself
To save the others
It gives me hope
And goes to show
Heroes do exist
Written by David_Macleod (14397816)
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