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)<