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| April 15, 1912 |
See her there, so grand and majestic The "unsinkable" colossus, her name Titanic Rich with ornamentation, class and finery All who board her take notice of the beauty Nothing seemed spared to make her the best But on her maiden voyage she sank like the rest All had seemed well, it was going as planned Then tragedy struck, the voyage was damned From out of the darkness, it loomed ahead And was seen too late, imagine the dread A terrible crash as metal met ice Water rushed in, she sank in the night As she was sinking it became also clear Too few lifeboats to save all who were there Many would die for so stupid a find Not to clutter the decks, to distract from her lines As she sank and slipped under the surface They clung to wherever they could find purchase Filled with the ocean, the ship broke in two Stern came crashing, down upon more than a few The final moments are now drawing near Many voices screaming, with no one to hear A lonely death awaits for those in the sea The water so cold it was hard to breath The lucky died quickly, not to suffer the pain For some it would be longer before life's refrain Clinging to a piece of what was left of the ship Freezing and shaking, under the surface they'd slip The lifeboats returned to find nary a soul Most had died, succumbed to the cold They pulled from the water only a few Over fifteen hundred died before the night was through History has taught us no ship can be Sinkable it was, as all in the sea |