I was emailed this poem by a work colleague who is also a fellow red. I have posted it here, so that we can all appreciate this deep and heartfelt piece of prose: NINETY-SIX SOULS: A SURVIVOR'S STORY Six minutes past three on that tragic day. The pain and the trauma won't go away. Crushed as I was in that terrible pen. Dead bodies around me; one as young as ten. I was big and strong, so I scrapped and I fought To save my own life; well that's what I thought. Because inside I'm dead and it cuts like a knife That ninety-six died and I have a life. I did what I had to; I had three kids you see. I couldn't die; it couldn't be me. If I had died that day I never would have seen My Ma's last seven years: My dear old queen. Ninety-six souls haunt my dreams. The nightmares won't stop; that's what it seems I wake up sweating, shivering and shouting out loud "There's ninety-six dead in that bloody crowd!" I feel anger, I feel hatred, I feel guilt, I feel shame. Ninety-six souls tell me I'm not to blame. So why do I wake up screaming and crying Seeing the faces of young people dying? Ninety-six souls come to meet me each night Taking me back to that terrible sight. "They're to blame: Duckenfield and Murray We'll get justice one day. We're in no hurry." I should have died that day: I know that's a fact. With the ninety-six souls I've made a pact. "When my days are up and my judgement awaits I'll meet you all in heaven at the Bill Shankly Gates."