I shouldn’t be with you
In this hotel
In this bed
In this relationship
No
I should be with my wife
In my house
With my newborn child
Living the life of suburbia
But I’m not
Instead
I’m planning an engagement
The future
I’m now two men
Living the lie
Waiting for the inevitable to happen
And it will.
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Perfect set up for a murder......next instalment....
Think the court murdered him and still does.
I know, this is reality
but
for the life of me
whether it be my friends or strangers
I can never fathom, why
they can't just walk away
before
they start, anything new...
I don't get it
nowadays
with 5 min divorce courts
and 5 second, wedding halls
why?
bother to cheat..
and for those not even married;
seriously?
you got twice the chance of dumping
your significant other
to go for another and then
try and get them back
than, cheating
getting caught
or making
an unwanted, 'mistake' child
and trying
to salvage something of your own
completely, unnecessary
mess...
'Waiting for the inevitable to happen
And it will.'
hell yeah, it will, always!
so why do it?
for the risqué, fun factor?
getting high
on the taboo of it all?
what?
I just don't get it, truly!
(sorry for my rant
this is a genuine thing for me
and when I find it as some laboured plots,
over used - 'twist', in a book
I just stop reading
cos, really
I don't get it, not in modernity
when we're an App's
thumb flick or clicked, tick
from connecting
with 3 billion potential partners
what's all the cloak-n-dagger
for?)
just do you
respect your partner, enough
to say goodbye
and deal
with your shitty choices or risk taking
prowess
'fck all the other BS..'
just so, elaborate and pathetic
I think the realisation of a long term affair has finally caught up with him, and not telling the other woman he was married has put him into a hole that he can't dig himself out of.
yeah, I get
like I said, this Is our reality
forgive me
I've just sat over a beer or coffee
one, too many times
and looked-on helpless, as people
self-disintegrated, their lives
over such needles mistakes/choices..
(a poetic character study, written
with your usual aplomb
and very much in-keeping
with the Robert Browning style
of character/narrative poetry)
thanks for sharing, dear Poet
sorry about the rant
I like a good rant.
Sad words of betrayal Paul, such a shame.
Andy
It happens
This is a fearsome piece and brings about so many raw emotions. Like a runaway vehicle, hurtling downhill, its brake line being severed. Thanks for sharing. /Rik.
It sure is a car crash.
Indeed!
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