H.Kishie Singh is based in Chandigarh and has been a motoring correspondent for newspapers like The Statesman, New Delhi and The Tribune.His column ‘Good Motoring’, for The Tribune ran for over 27 years. He has been also been the contributing editor for magazines like Car & Bike, Auto Motor & Sport and Auto India. His latest book Good Motoring was published recently and has co-authored a book with The Dalai Lama, Ruskin Bond, Khuswant Singh and others, called The Whispering Deodars.


Sunday, 25 October 2020

LONGEST DAY- A poem by Rob Aitichison

Do not call me hero

When you see the medals that I wear

Medals maketh not the hero

They just prove that I was there

 

Do not call me hero

Now that I am old and grey

I left a lad, returned a man

They stole my youth that day.

 

Do not call me Hero when we ran the wall of hail

The blood, the fears, the cries, the tears

We left them where they fell

 

Do not call me Hero

Each night I stop and pray

For all the friends I knew and lost

I survived my longest days

 

Do not call me Hero

For all the years that passed

For all the real great Heroes

Have crosses lined up on the grass

 

 Written in memory of Hugh ‘Jock’ Aitichison

Royal Navy Commando


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