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Painful Partings
My hand strays to feel my strong heartbeat
And also what nestled nearby, my precious gift
It was a band of gold with a single ruby
I will ask her to let me be her hubby
Tonight her smile looks strained, perhaps it was a long day
But why are her eyes downcast? why does she not have something to say?
Alas! how was I to know that if she were to speak
My world will crash with nothing left but a future bleak
At the fatal moment she did not linger
And before my ring found a way onto her finger
She dealt me a blow that we could be together no more
Six years of togetherness and suddenly this ! I was floored !
I felt her drifting away, helpless to stop her
Was too stunned, just watched her go without a murmur
She left behind a legacy of words that would haunt me for life
"Why? Dear God, what have I done to deserve such strife?"
-Marisha
September'03