A kid from Australia fresh from school
Left home to see the world
Brave, quick witted, and strong
Living life, and singing youth’s great song
A correspondent in Austria witnessing Nazi brutality
Then in Marseille during the invasion of France
Where events were a catalyst creating in her
An immense latent power and unshakeable drive
No matter the risk of each dangerous hour
There she gave doomed lives an escape route to a new chance
As a member of the Resistance fighting enemy occupation
Helping thousands escape death and Gestapo cremation
A heavy price on her head (2)
Fleeing to the Pyrenees and Spain
Eluding torture and death ready to fight again
Parachuted into France to fight on and on (4)
She played the cards she was dealt
Every merciless bloody dawn
Once in a while conflict creates a brilliant warrior
Caught as she was in what was deemed Total War (3)
Ready to give her life to even the score
The world needs such people when man pushes destruction
To say “no” when events start to kill
Ready to risk life for freedom
When Power grabs it all
Making others foot the bill
Never should she be forgotten
In the continuous “hard march of man” (5)
To be revered forever by those
Who can rest and sleep free
In freedom’s warm sand (6)
Footnote.