Home from the war
\nby cricketjeff on January 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThe first time that I heard you speak my name
\nI felt that I was born again as new.
\nFrom that day on I could not stay the same,
\nEvery second of my life was now for you.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t see you when I should have done,
\nWas not my choice to fight that bloody war.
\nOf things I could have lost, you are the one,
\nThat truly I believe worth fighting for.<\/p>\n
Demobbed and heading home by train at last.
\nI saw your mother’s face and then I knew,
\nThat all my time of waiting had now passed
\nAnd I would see my one and only you.<\/p>\n
She held you in her arms, you called me “Dad?”
\nAnd in that very second I was had
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I smiled and I was glad
\nThe fears I brewed while fighting far away
\nWere melted into love that very day<\/p>\n
Author notes
\n#3 – Meeting someone who changes your ENTIRE life
\nOK well it isn’t my entire life because I met my daughter in the act of being
\nborn and have never fought a war!<\/p>\n
Oh and if you care it’s a Caudate sonnet, as written by Milton, like me he was
\nlong-winded and didn’t know when to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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