Romance Poetry posted April 8, 2023

Chapters:

...8 9 -10- 11...

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Poem 10

A chapter in the book Seasons of Change

Seasons of Love and Marriage - 4

by JLR

Seasons of Love and Marriage                  IV A handful of seasons cycling through time has helped. As the past recedes, life rebounds and like a daffodil stands tall even though the crusty snow remains, the flower is nourished, as the last snow melts away, so, time also heals the soul.  ------------------------ Bonnie burst forth like a rushing snow melt cascading down a mountain crevasse. When we met, it was all business. She owned her own a blossoming Public relations agency. Her firm contracted our company for some advisory work on a project. I was assigned as the company liaison and over several months of meetings, handful of lunches and hours of revisions and decision making meetings, we came to a comfortable place to begin talking about our personal lives. She was a single parent with a 13-year-old daughter who had tried making, a one-sided, marriage work for ten years. I was a divorced man in recovery and had two children from a failed ten-year-long marriage. If one believed in warning signs, this would have been plenty. ---------------------------------------- We liked working with each other. When our contract concluded, she asked me out for a thank-you dinner. I eagerly accepted this invitation and we spent the whole evening, telling one another why marriage doesn't work. But then, for months, we dated. I felt like a young stallion galloping with a cautious gait but focused on a one-of-a-kind mare running free in the spring meadow, Bonnie brought a warm heart, ears that heard every word I tried to impart some still filled with pangs of pain and guilt. . She possessed a heart that was yearning for a tender touch that spoke without words; it is you, I love. In the fall of '83, as the leaves of trees shouted in unison, the vibrations in every color were felt. While we went bursting forth, married. Carrying our new love, new hopes, and new dreams in lockstep with nature's rhythms.