Lover's Eye's

DPOV

Love…such a foreign concept to me. Absent and yet at the forefront of my mind, I had loved, loved and lost. She was my everything, my whole world, she was mine and I was hers. And then she was taken from me, or rather, I from her. When the Army came looking for recruits I signed up, right behind Jasper, without a thought for my wife. She had flowing long blonde hair that she wore in a bun when she was out and about, but in our quiet moments alone she let it down, it shone like the sun, her smile was radiant and her touch was light and kind, her voice was like sweet flowers that bathed in the summer sun. And her eyes, such eyes, a lighter shade of blue, a calm blue, like the sky after a fierce rainstorm, they held such love, deep passionate love, a furious love. Those eyes have never left my memory, A woman's eyes, a wives eyes, a lover's eyes.

Of course she was furious with me, with a child on the way how could I guarantee the baby that it would have a Father? The truth was, I couldn't and when we were shipped out…everything changed, the letters grew darker, depressed, as if the very ink we were writing with was mimicking our own emotions. Hate and rage began to flow into the pages, tears were shed, and we were at our breaking point. But we had made vows, Till death do us part. I'll never forget that last letter she sent me.

'David, you are my world, I know it's been hard for us both, but I can't bare to see us ripped apart by old wounds, we are a team, together forever, just like we planned when we were kids. I love you so much, so dearly that even now the words escape my mind to explain the depth of my love for you. I don't expect you to feel as I do, War has changed you and I guess in the end…all is fair in love and war. I await your reply with your feelings penned strong and clear so that I may move forward.

Yours with all my love

SGW

Of course I never did get to write back, I guess those vows came true, I am not alive anymore and neither is she…

"David?" Reneseme had been calling my name lightly to drag me out of my memories "Hmmm?" I replied, still pondering over my past.

"Have you ever been in love?" She asked again. I looked up now, eyes staring deeply into hers, I took her hands and smiled.

"Once dear one, once long ago"