"Another Young Friend Lost"

Photo Copyright © Jacob Cockle.

Dedicated to

The Loving Memory

of

Jacob Cockle

Who drowned yesterday

(28th May 2013)

whilst photographing

Whirlpools from Underwater.

“Another Young Friend Lost”

Another young friend lost.

We lose too many young people

Down here in the West.

If it’s not illness

It’s fast cars

On slow country lanes.

Or it’s the waves

And the tides,

And our youth

So brave.

So talented and

So very brave.

Better perhaps

You had saved

Some of your bravery,

For your families,

And saved your lives!

Better perhaps you

Had saved some of your

Bravery.

For  your Mothers

And your Fathers,

Sisters and Brothers

And all that loved you

Have greater need

Of that bravery now

Than you do.

By dying

You will now live

Forever young

In the hearts

That you leave behind.

Those hearts

In great need

Of your bravery

To sustain them

In their loss.

So brave but

Brokenhearted!

Rest in Peace.

Words Copyright © Res JFB 29th May 2013

Jacob was a well known surf photographer.

One of his photographs is shown above.