Authoress Note: Hello, Yes I know this is different than anything else that I've posted but I love Titanic, movie and actual event. This is just a poem about it
How to be a Hero
A Titanic Poem
April 14 and April 15, 11:40 pm to 2:20 am, 1912
The water was cold, the stars bright, the music lively
Women and children first they called, but not all of them made it
Drink your way to living, or just accept your fate
The Titanic, the unsinkable ship was going to sink
Thousands of people aboard, most won't live to see the sun again
Millionaires and coal workers together on the same ship
Everyone was in the same boat
Harold Bride and Jack Phillips relayed their SOS call until the last minute
Officers Murdoch, Lowe, and Lightroller thrust people into the lifeboats
No concern for themselves only the passengers
The band, keeping the music up until they sunk
Violet Jessop, helping her passengers til the end
The Unsinkable Molly Brown for helping out in the lifeboat
Captain Rostron of the Carpathia for taking in the survivors
And Harold Cottam, the wireless operator of the Carpathia
Who never stopped trying to find the sunken ship and its passengers
2,208 passengers, 1,053 dead, 712 alive, and 300 pulled from the sea
How to be a hero is the question that was asked
But does anyone know who these heroes are?
How to be a hero was the question posed
The answer is don't try to be one, it doesn't happen like that
These people were trying live
To survive that horrid night
But what is a hero if no one knows who they are
Are they still heroes
Or merely just names in a history book
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