BAND OF GOLD

The path of love can at the best of times be fraught with problems, even more so when unfaithfulness to partners already involved with is commonplace.

By Stanley Collymore

 

I know that I’ve 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, the only realistic chance

I have of ever getting to you, other than

me storming the castle or else laying

siege to it that is, is for someone,

preferably yourself, who’s on

the inside to lower the

drawbridge down

and let me in.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore.

14 December 1997.