I am an old man in a nostalgic trance. The days and years from a mosaic past Flood through my thoughts in an unending dance. At times they pause as if a die were cast. I was young when thoughts of love crossed my mind - "Ah" said I, " But I have no time for such - The world is complex and I have much to find." So I sought fame and missed the lover's touch. I read volumes about love and of life. The vagaries were all that I could bare. And still I found her and made her my wife. "How", you may well ask - and, "how did you dare" Despite all my study and all I'd read It only took two words - "Love me," she said. 9/9/2017 For contest Help Me Fall In Love for Mystic Rose