An indispensable love that almost didn’t happen



By Stanley Collymore

You came into my life quite unexpectedly, and very much

so unsurprisingly as well; for in every conceivable way

that I can think of nothing like this was ever intended

by me or strictly and being perfectly honest you see

was never actually meant to be. And as for falling

in love while on my holiday the pragmatist that

I am, I would have jovially said to anyone who

suggested a scenario like this that such a

supposition from my very own personal perspective

wasn’t only far-fetched and a decidedly unlikely

probability but likewise as well for someone

seeking to promote such a risible notion

as this would quickly find that theirs

was an estimation, even with the

fanciful perceptions overactive

minds do zealously conjure

up when on vacation, that

even so and especially

in my case would

testify to being a

relatively hard

preference

to sell.

Besides, as complete strangers to each other initially we

were also individually on separate holiday schedules

that only converged simply, as it happened, because

coincidentally we were staying at the same hotel,

which from the start of each December until

March of the following year, and on a

consecutive basis for the previous

five years as well, I had for

academic research and

other literary reasons utilized as a temporary

home; so, consequently, romance for me

in any shape or form was the furthest

thing possibly then from my mind

and surely out of the question;

and that was astutely based

on insightful pragmatism

and not cold arrogance;

or me, deliberately in

any way, seeking

to be unkind.

But having assuredly convinced myself that my amorous

defences were assiduously, impeccably and naturally

impregnably in place and I was therefore in effect

as victim free as anyone could possibly be in

such given circumstances I logically, as is

my forte, conscientiously got on

as I’d customarily done on all other previous

occasions with what my cerebral vacation

and therefore my intuitive mind were

essentially aiming for: motivating

pursuits that specifically were

of a challenging and very

intellectual nature and

categorically not of

the carnal kind.

Apparently though I’d not only overlooked but had

also clearly forgotten in this meticulous strategy

of self-protection I’d routinely and sedulously

taken, omitted to factor into this restorative

equation the definitive law of unintended

consequences; and that’s where self-

confidently, enchantingly, totally

engaging, as it happened and I’m honourably

bound to say, you most disarmingly and

quite pleasurably too in ever possible

way that any genuinely worthy and

truly cultured lady can artlessly

contrive, emphatically and

most rewardingly came

into my life. And most

gratefully, energizingly and very highly

rewardingly, we have reciprocally

and faithfully promised that

for the rest of our natural

lives that’s precisely

where freely we

both plan on

having you

stay!

© Stanley V. Collymore

8 October 2015.

Author’s Comments:

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag meiner Prinzessin mit all meiner Liebe! Und vielen Dank fuer all die schoenen Zeiten herrlich zusammen und verbunden mit den gegenseitigen, exquisite und dauerhafte Errinerungen an sie ausgegeben, dass wir teilen. Ich liebe Dich!

Happy Birthday my Princess with all my love! And thanks for all the wonderful times gloriously spent together and conjoined with the mutual, exquisite and enduring memories of them that we share. I love you!

The German Title of this poem is: “Ein unverzichtbares Liebe, die fast nicht geschehen!