Eden rock

• "they are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock"
• "the sky whitens as if lit by three suns"
• "they beckon me from the other bank"
• "crossing is not as hard as you might think"
• "I had not thought it would be like this"
• published in 1988 by Charles Caustley
• when he was 7 his father died from injuries from world war 1
• he served in world war 2