Tawdry Affair

love triangle

He's Mine,you may have had him once,
but I got him all the time~I wrote him
a letter and we are back together now
you will never be part of our lives again~


I wish I had seen all the gritty details
in advance~ but then again maybe
it was for the best, learning at a later
date, about your tawdry affair while
I was abroad touring Europe
Yes, I always had my doubts and
suspicions about you darling, but
perhaps I had blinders on or simply
looked the other way~ refusing to see
the whole picture, denying the truth of
our relationship and how the love
true love, we once had was fading fast
both being at fault I suppose, but that
doesn't stop the pain and heartbreak
of your clandestine affairs and your
cheating wicked ways and all the lies you told.
Now upon returning home I find that
it's another affair, only this time with my
best friend~ How could you? How could she?
I have never experienced such a painful
expression of hurt emotions~ a profound
sadness to my very soul
I shudder to think of the satisfaction you
must have felt betraying me in this manner
pulling the wool over my eyes~ oh yes, very
clever ~ after you had me believing our
marriage union was a strong and solid one
as any could be between a husband and wife,
No, I cannot forget; but I can forgive
even tho~ you crossed the line this time
and diminished the feelings I had felt for my
friend and destroyed our relationship, I
will try to bury the hurt and pain this
tawdry affair has caused, because I cannot
give up on you and let her win you away from me
I should have figured it out~ seen it coming
now it is all too clear, as hindsight is 20/20
yes, looking back I now see the signs were
there all the while~ I get the whole picture
and the new picture is never letting you
down~ yes, tho~ I was a fool~ I also neglected
you , but you are mine and I shall have you
for all eternity!

Reviews

[holly]

Sort of a departure from many of your poems, but certainly achieves the grittiness and irony that it seems you were aiming for. "A tawdry affair" could be taken very literally as the one of which the speaker complains. But your speaker reveals herself to be a part of the tawdriness, holding her faithless husband hostage in a marriage he clearly doesn't value. Very compelling.

[xRetroCortx]

I really enjoed that. I like how you started it off by talking to the other woman, and then went into what you wrote him. Great write.