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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