I like that last post (!!!), very good. May I offer this as an alternative to the oft-used "High Flight"........ I wrote this some time back, originally in honour of a Barton pilot , Dave "Rooftop" Riley. With acknowledgement & thanks to Shaggy Sheep Driver who rescued it from a noticeboard (I'd lost the original).
You Flew
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You flew - you were one in many thousands, yet so few
to know the sunkissed splendour of a towering cloud
to climb unhindered to the glory of the sun
whilst others slept in drab grey brown worlds far below.
You lived - you took the chances, made the breaks for self
to try and taste for real the game of living life
and learned new ways, new skills that generations just
gone by had never known, and always you were you.
You laughed - a wholesome laugh, a sincere laugh with those
who after having flown the day, returned to home
to talk with like-mind others on the hours aloft
and recall shared adventures, known to those select.
You died - too young, too soon, but die we all one day
and yours was such a day, so full of hope and joy
to glory in the very thing which took your life
and we will always know you're there because - you flew.