Goldfinch60

Am I Now A Romantic?

Why does this happen?

How can she do it?

I have read all my life,

Adventure stories,

War stories,

Detective stories,

Tales of blood and thunder,

But she has changed me,

Changed my reading.

Or have I changed,

Have I now become a romantic,

A romantic in my old age.

Each of her stories

Of love and love’s despair

Pull me into them,

I just cannot stop reading,

Reading her words.

There are still more to read,

Of her thirty four books

I have read twenty one.

These are so different,

So different from what I have read,

Read for so many years.

So what has changed,

Changed in my life,

Have I now become a romantic?