Run From Love
>I have been married now for forty-nine years, it will be fifty next year In 2017. I have no regrets. But there was once, what I thought was a first love. We were too young to know of course.
Run from love
I liked running when I was young.
Had an Alsatian dog, that was fun.
We both ran alongside a horse and rider as well.
Were you the one we ran with, can you tell?
I joined the army, then I did do.
Once, was just about to propose to you.
But then you broke my dream in two.
Said a soldier’s life was not for you.
I stayed my question right just there.
That question ceased, at you I stared.
A love light was quenched just then
I should have pursued you still again.
Or even left the army then.
But you quelled the love from me.
Extinguish it oh so quickly.
You still did wed a soldier true.
Why could you not, have wed me too?
A love light was killed that day.
I have just added the following to bring a soldiers tale to an ending.
A few years later God was kind to me.
As another chance, He gave you see.
Another chance of love to me.
I just hope you are happy now.
As me.
I wrote this poem on a scrap of paper in the 60s. I was stationed in the mountains of Aden at the time. How it survived so long I do not know. The paper was thin and the writing faded. I just managed to rewrite it. funny really, as as I started to write the words flowed as I was writing it for the first time. I checked my words against the original and it was word perfect. Fortunately the original must have liked what I did because it just crumbled away as I tried to pick it up again. Its duty done I expect. Although wrote as a poem story. It was the truth at the time. I found the poem in some old papers of mine I was tidying and throwing away. Funny the things we keep. Stanley (The mad Author)<
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