ARGUMENT

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with a heart of stone and eyes like slate

I walk to the other side of the room

to confront my soon to be former mate

who is she and is she the real reason you were

fashionably late

Infidelity bears no apparent fresh fruit to help

inform fate

my breathing slowly shallows out and my heart angrily

accelerates

as his petty lies infiltrate what he so calmly states

he replies, 'she's with me so what do you care?

you never wanted to be with me 'cause you're always

out somewhere"

But it always has to do with my work....

'and my finding solace in an attentive female

I suppose makes me the bigger jerk'

NO, practiced humiliation has always been your

chosen game

'well, at least my companion here remembers my name'

This all has to do with nothing more than male pride

'no, it has only to do with my love and my life

so only I can decide'

And just what is your so called decision?

That by your rewritten rules I'll no longer abide'

and from my fear of losing myself as a man I'll no

longer hide

instead, I'll let my instincts and long forgotten feelings be my guide '

Well, you can be my guest to your faithless self then!

'I believe I will, now why don't you go back to your precious paper and pen.............

( written June 5,1992 am)


Author's Notes/Comments: 

this was born out of a conversation I had with a male friend of mine who was much older and recently divorced. He told me how his wife was married to her work and he became friends with another woman and they unexpectedly fell in love so he divorced his wife and later he and this new lady married. This poem comes from his telling me about a time he and his new love ran into his ex wife and the ugly verbal battle they had in the entryway of a restaurant. I went home not long after hearing him tell this conversation and this poem came to me. I put myself in the place of the ex wife. He admitted her only mistake was working that she was faithful to him and he never once believed she had been unfaithful nor did he doubt she loved him he just wanted a woman who was less of a workaholic and put him once in a while before her work.

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