Forget About Their Promises in the Bloom of New Love

“I will always love you.”

“I will never leave you.”

“You are the love of my life.”

Sure those promises sound endearing and are wonderful to hear from
the lips of someone you have fallen seriously in love with.

They might even put you in a euphoric state … but, as you possibly
have learned from experience, those promises may not pan out.

As the excitement tones down and the days and years pass by
those promises may come to mean nothing when your love
doesn’t work out, as if those loving words were merely lies.

I experienced this once dramatically, when a much younger woman told me unlike with a woman my age, she could take care of me when I got old.

I didn’t want to ever need to be taken care of, but it was nice to hear
and partly what convinced me to gamble on love with a truly beautiful woman far younger than me.

As what was probably predictable, those words came to mean nothing when I got a little older, 62 to 70, and she left.

The good news was I didn’t need to be taken care of, and I was relieved when she left, as disappointing and uncaring as she had become.

Bob Boyd

Author: BobBoyd

Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-) View all posts by BobBoyd