Rekindled Romance
/September of 2023 had me
wedged into a cloud of devastation.
Marlena served the country
on foreign soil for a war
she didn’t vote for.
This year bore shadows
of a contradiction that had me
up in arms over sleepless nights.
Blackmailed with suspicion,
I received mail with a parcel
indicating the war had ended,
not just overseas
but between Marlena and me.
I released the words I thought
I’d never say, not in 2023.
But there Marlena stands.
And here, I dropped to one knee.
By Andy Cooper
From: United States
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