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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)<

Copyright © Stanley Harris | Year Posted 2016

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