This poem is a tribute to Alan Turing, a gifted mathematician who helped to decode top secret military messages used by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. He was also a homosexual, and he paid the highest price for his sexuality.
Cracked the Nazi code,
Helped to win the cypher war,
While all the time you kept
Your own secret under wraps,
But some peacetime later
You inadvertently revealed it
To an investigating officer;
Your country's fascists read
You like a book afterwards,
Noted the semaphore of a drowning man,
Made you take your own life
Despite all the lives you'd saved.
Chris Fernie,2006
Poetry by Chris Fernie
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Written on 2006-10-02 at 21:57
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Enigma
The word is that youCracked the Nazi code,
Helped to win the cypher war,
While all the time you kept
Your own secret under wraps,
But some peacetime later
You inadvertently revealed it
To an investigating officer;
Your country's fascists read
You like a book afterwards,
Noted the semaphore of a drowning man,
Made you take your own life
Despite all the lives you'd saved.
Chris Fernie,2006
Poetry by Chris Fernie
Read 464 times
Written on 2006-10-02 at 21:57
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