Betrayal

A Poem by peacemilk

Cheating husband and a jealous wife.

There are eyes in the dark tonight;

there is pain in those eyes,

and deathly stillness in others;

the bedroom lies around them

as cold and silent as a tomb.

Moonlight spills over her telling face,

into the dreams that she had once had, into the cracks

of those dreams that he himself had fashioned

with his cheating hands, those treacherous hands

that held the flesh of another

and molded their delightful softness to his needy palms

when he was promised to her, to her flesh --

tender, trembling and trusting.

Time and time again he had tried

to admit the truth about all the lies,

but his doubts rose in him

like weeds and strangled his voice

and left his heart in darkness;

she wondered of the silence

and filled the blank spaces with her

darkest imaginings.

She accused him many times,

and he denied, and so they spun

like spokes on a vicious wheel

spinning on and on in sudden lack of love

and in loathing.

So at last she ends their shared hell,

in delirious abandon, in feverish jealousy,

with a knife.

And he lay watchful of the blank ceiling

and the moving shadows

knowing now that life has passed him by in lust

and in grief

and in hate when he could have loved.

But now he bleeds

just as she had.

© 2016 peacemilk

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AquaWater5674

Wow...
Wounding prose...
Beytrayal..in an intimate relationship..
Is deep..
Can hurt the one beytrayed..
As well as the one betraying..
Jesus said it best..
When He needed them..
They were all sleeping..
Betrayal is like an opiate induced slumber..
The cause of the Betrayal is like opium at the time..
You need that instant gratification..
Damn the torpedoes!!
Without thoughts of the consequences..
One of the greatest mysteries and tragedies of living..
Well Written