Affair

 

Be it media mogul celebrities

who met on ‘the set’

we’re told via tabloid tales

Or a husband, wife duo

living next door

Is the ‘love’ expressed

any less real

Is the lust experienced

filled with any less ‘feel’

for them?

 

Of hurt and pain

will the onslaught

being cached in clandestine reserve

soon to be known

prove any less damaging

for partners and children

left at home,

who wait patiently

to be touched

within the marrow of bone

by revelations of infidelity

drawing near,

welling up,

reservoirs of torrent tears

which across entire families

will be flowing like rain

 

Of promises made

now vows forsaken

will these lovers in their dream state

be awakened

by the sweep of reality’s nightmare unleashed

by legality’s sharks

who shear and fleece

for the joy, for the bucks

protracted and taken

in reveled exchange

of each hidden copulation tryst

disguised as love-making

 

Digging deeper the hole of self

indulgence, disgust

for violations, deceit,

abuse of one’s trust

Ages old axiom

repetitively ignored

when beyond arm’s length

we dare to explore

And so once more

we come to know

inevitably, we reap that which we sow

 

© 2007 by Branch Isole