Monday, 20 January 2025

Goodbye my love


 Dear Reader,


          This poem came to me in the middle of the night.  I thought you might like to read it today and not wait until Sunday.  


Goodbye my love

 

They walked along the beach

holding hands

talking of their tomorrows,

pictured children, picnics, sandcastles,

love was in the air

in their hearts.

 

She started in the hospital,

he went to war in France,

they wrote whenever they could

how they missed each other

how they were counting days

until their leave came up.

 

Then the telegram came,

the soldier had been killed

in battle,

but a brave death

or so they said.

 

Goodbye my love

goodbye, my love

my everything,

the woman wept,

despairing

of mankind's stupidity.

 

                                                                       *

 

With best wishes, Patricia

 

 

 

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