People such as yourself deserve respect and honor for putting your life on the line for the world to be safe and secure. (I came to think of our soldier poet friend here, Tony.) Some of whom are forced to live away from loved ones, and maybe come back home only to know their first loves are married to someone else. God is good because you came home safe and did not lose the love of your life!

This is a touching poem, with really great beauty as it is a real life story. Wonderfully told too, as your rhyming is fantastic as ever!

A really great write, Ken.

Thank you Mossgirl19, we continually thank the Lord for bringing our Nephew home safely, unharmed after he served in Iraq and Afganistan. We continually pray for our men and women who are still there and that the Lord would grant Peace to the World especially Jerusalem, as the Bible proclaims, God will bless those who love thee.

God bless you!

This is a true love story for your love to wait for you till you
returned and never moved on with her life. That itself shows how
true her love for you was and still is!

War does a lot of things, it hurts, it kills and it tears relations apart
and to survive all this and reach that one person you have been yearning for
is the good Lord's mercy...a lovely little read Ken...take care and keep penning