The Loss of a Love

She gets up every morning
dresses and goes to work teary-eyed.

She sees her work as work therapy
to get over the love she threw away

with a dishonest player she met on Facebook,
who had her and dumped her

after she left her husband of 20 years for him.
She tried to get back with her husband

but he wasn’t having any of it.
She lost his love and trust forever.

And there’s no chance of her husband
after taking her back.

He cannot forget or forgive her
for exhibiting herself on Facebook,

casting herself and her wares into the sea of men
to lure their attentions and comments into her page,

disrespecting and disgracing her loving husband, like
a virtueless, attention seeking single woman.

Maybe the loss, the hard knock, will benefit her,
and she’ll make better choices with the next man in her life.

After all everybody makes mistakes
and some people become better because of them.

Bob Boyd

Author: BobBoyd

Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-) View all posts by BobBoyd