Long Days, Lonely Nights

By Margaret Escoe

The book depicts the story in poetry about a woman, her love and daily life as she awaits her lover's return home from Special Forces duty. It portrays her strength, but most of all her courage and the certainty that time and distance could never separate her from her significant other. It is a powerful love story showing true and deeply meaningful love in motion. It is about life, love and missing that special someone when they are not by your side. The book is compiled of extracts taken from her daily journal. Turn the pages and feel the love; follow her daily journey and discover how life and love can survive from a distance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Oct 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491881132

Margaret Escoe

Margaret Escoe was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Margaret has been an avid reader throughout her high school years, and has always aspired to be a writer. She migrated to the UK where she met her husband and continued her personal writing, becoming a member of local writers’ groups to share and hone her craft. Her poems have been broadcast on the radio and received rave reviews for her contribution to the literary genre. Margaret currently resides in the West Midlands, United Kingdom with her family. This is her first publication.

Book preview

Is It OK?

My dearest, my darling

I know because of your job

We spend a lot of time apart.

Is it OK if I keep on reminding you how much

I miss you

And how much I long to be with you?

Is it OK to let you know?

I never get tired of waiting for you to come home

Is it OK to let you know that each time you walk through the door

And open wide your arms to me

And I run to you

My head on your shoulder and you pull me close

It is me who has come home.

Even When We Are Apart

Here I am thinking of you again

I see your face

You fill my thoughts

I reach over and kiss you

Can you feel it?

I want to touch you and feel your