We have many faces but we are all the same: the drudges of existence, the drones in life's great game. My best days are behind me, my race is nearly run. I get up for work each morning, its been years since its been fun. I am wedded to a woman whose passion has grown cold. I have worry lines around my eyes to remind me I am old * * * * * I met her on a Thursday, The memory makes me hard: Perhaps she was the Devil's snare, Perhaps a gift from God. Her perfume was alluring Her hair brunette and long. Her posture was inviting, unless I read her wrong. She'd been recently divorced surely there's nothing wrong with that: She had finally shed her man and had yet to get a cat.
On my finger, a reminder, a band of gold I saw. to be yet another cheater would offend me to the core. So we chatted and had coffee Cheek kissed in parting, nothing more. Another battle won in a nasty little war.