Twenty Year Hope! Poem by Geoff Warden

Twenty Years to this very day,
I have so longed for this moment,
in nervous stacher, I await my landing,
and this plane to become dormant.

She, the only Love I have known,
After such departure, may return,
filling the ache of twenty years,
the answer...in a moment, I shall learn.

Long ago, I had to leave my Love,
not by choice, but by honour of duty,
for war was called, and I was chosen,
in sadness I left my vision of beauty.

Three long years of battlefield,
had taken its toil upon my body,
the removal of one of my limbs,
left me feeling less than Monty.

Yet up until just last year,
contact was made via the wire,
my pride wounded, my ego deflated,
her latest note has brought desire.

For the first time in many a day,
I have received word from lost love,
A reconciliation may be the call to order,
as my spirit has sprouted wings of a dove.

Today be that day, it is that immenent moment,
this bird of steel has halted on paved fair,
Slowly I descend the stairs, searching the crowd,
moment of truth...my eyes lock...she is there....