βIβve something to tell you...
I kissed someone else.β
βYou kissed someone else?!
That canβt be true, who?β
βHow could you not notice me,
you had many chances to see...
I donβt know what I want,
but this is honesty.β
He storms away, slamming door
out into the night. Then -
βIβm sorry, your actions are yours but
itβs my fault youβre there...
please, Iβll get help, be your friend
Iβll get better, I swear...β
βI love youβ says he
βWhy, truthfully?β
βYouβre so beautiful...
I donβt want to fail..β
But beautiful is a trophy, a conquest
and marriage isnβt a contest.
Actually, I now see
The kissing of someone else
was me, breaking free.
Iβd broken long ago
his promises felt hollow
I was clutching at saving me.
My joy, our family, our life
all millstones to him,
burden and strife.
The endless trying, ideas and hope,
Fell on deaf ears - I was just the wife.
Then I stuck around, tried,
grief searing inside.
Let him touch me (excruciatingly)
give flowers and hold me...
but it was gone with old tides.
And simple jealousy tipped him?
Got to be kidding me.
Iβm not feeling sorry for myself...just trying to express how deeply it cut. And the feeling of abandonment that just went on for so long.