Love At Last

Love had no part in my life as a kid, If it did then it kept itself well hid. For years and years I longed for it to show, If there was a God , He must have said no. Then through all my army days I felt, So alone as in the church where I knelt. It never happened as far as I could see, If love was around , it would pass by me. Until one day at a friends, a door opened, A face appeared for but a fleeting second. Hi , I'm Fran she said, and I'm in a hurry, She needed to change so off she did scurry. I felt my heart leap, high in my breast, This woman I saw had so much zest. I swear, in my mind I heard my heart say, This is the woman I will marry some day. To her I became obsessed, a persistent pest, She said, I don't need a man so give it a rest. My mind told me that this would always be so, Yet my heart also told me, no, never let go. It took many more weeks for her to come round Her unwillingness I began to slowly grind down, Until that day to my sheer delight, She said,OK, OK, I love you , alright ! For 46 years we have been bound by love, That special bond made by our Father above. © Dave Timperley 11 August 2016