That last stanza skips a beat from your girlfriend to thoughts of the war that still haunt you. It would've been nicer had you told us the bitter truth that happened when you left to the girlfriend. Did she marry someone else?
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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Yes we got married 3 months after I got back from the war in Europe.
We had 6 children and the marriage lasted until she died at the age of 69
Ron