The Affair

Those secret embraces

In various places.

He loved how they fumbled

Until they were rumbled.

It added some spice

To his cold, empty life:

But it upset the wife

And so he was forced

Into getting divorced.

Now they are Legit

There’s no fun in it.

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Out of the blue they appeared

Composure broken, cast adrift

Lately she'd been evading me

My questions got short shrift

Nature can only take so much

Secrets discompose its skills

So long we had been at odds

Life an endless battle of wills

We had survived enough wars

Love adrift on waves of years

But nothing prepared me for

The truth in hot sudden tears

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