BAND OF GOLD

A pragmatic approach to a marital affair.

By Stanley Collymore

 

I know that I have no legal or moral claims

on you as the only attachment I have to

you at present is the love we share

for each other - because the

wedding ring you wear

is not mine but given to you by another.

And like a beguiling moat, beneath whose

unruffled surface lurks many dangers,

it shuts you in - a prisoner of love

in your fortified castle.

Therefore, my only chance of ever getting

to you - apart from storming the castle

or laying siege to it - is for someone,

preferably yourself, who’s on the

inside to lower the drawbridge

down and let me in.

 

ã Stanley V. Collymore.

24 December 1997.