A Love Not Allowed

He had fallen in love when he had first seen her, her dark black hair and green
eyes had been what had attracted him.

Yes he knew the danger but he had smuggled her out, taken her to his home and he had not told a soul what he had done.

She was nineteen and he was fourtythree, he did not see the age difference and only saw her beauty, if anyone found out he was hiding her then he knew they would be both killed.

She had lived with him for eight days, in that time he had never tried to seduce her or make any advance towards her, he clothed her and provided food and any comfort that she required.

On the eigth night she came to his room, she was naked when she slipped into his bed and they made love all the way until the dawn, it would be their last night together.

They came the next morning, he knew he had to shoot her, the Luger given to him by his father two years ago was the weapon he had to use.

She wept silent tears for she knew what must be done, he put the gun to her head and pulled the trigger.

He put the gun to his own head as he heard them break down the door, he knew they would have both been punished to death and this was the only way.

They were too late to stop him and he pulled the trigger with the gun at his head and his body fell to lay with the dead body of the woman he had loved.

It was not supposed to have happened, a German guard falling in love with a Jewish girl condemned to have been gassed to death at the camp.

copyright
Chris Smith Prose/Story

Reviews

Awesome work ... !!
a very similar scenario that happens in some places in India when people from different religions and castes run off and marry and then people from their community and family hunt them down ... it is stupidity ... idiotic .. anyways .. that is a different story altogether ..
This , my friend , is a lovely piece of work .. and very sad ...
I kind of expected as I read along , that when the guard would try to shoot himself , he would find that there were no more bullets left , but I would have felt even worse then ... thank you for the mercy shown .

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Excellent as always my friend and quite a surprising ending :)

[iamkim]

Woooot! I love the twist! You did an excellent job here without confusing your readers. I didn't really see that ending coming though. I was expecting a different finale, but then... bravo! I love the way how it ended than the one's I expected :)

Excellent!

[Pebbles]

brilliant twist changed the story and made u understand so much .. thanks for sharing chris :)

[snapjack]

This is really good. I like how it got the turn around in the end. Very cool

[northern monkey]

Love this masterpiece. Thank you Chris, like the way your mind works. Were you at all inspired by Kate Winslet's 2009 film Oscar for 'The Reader'?

[Lilly Negoi]

BRAVO! love the fast pace of this and how the end shows things in such a different light! excellent and in my favs!

[Lily Mae]

Chris this is amazing. A very powerful poem full of such grand emotion and love.. Your never cease to thrill my eyes:) x

[fargone]

a sad and lovely story, chris. man's inhumanity transended by immortal love. great piece.

[LA Lorena]

Wow, such a twist! You had me wondering the whole time I was reading it, why the subterfuge? I did not see that ending coming, and what an ending! KUDOS to you! Sterling write. You had me on the edge of my seat the entire time.
* 2nd to last line, change HAD happened to HAVE*