When he said I do
He was done
He’d just begun
But the end had come.
In the euphoria of the moment
He enjoyed himself
Knowing only too well
He had invited ill health.
The warnings were there
The counsel was clear
But having made up his mind
He must serve the time.
What a beautiful face!
What a bewitching smile!
What a tender embrace!
What alluring guile!
She’s not for you
Advised more than a few,
All along he knew
She knew it too.
But she walked by his side
Back down the aisle
He was her prize
However they despise.
From a well-to-do family
He was well bred,
No doubt in her mind
He she would wed.
And that she had done
As she took their son
All was legal and right
He was hers from that night.
A life of misery ensued
Far beyond expectation
And though they lived together
There was chronic rejection.
But he had said "I do"
And "I do" he would keep
But his warning to the unwed
Is, “look before you leap.”
All that glitters is not gold
We’ve been repeatedly told,
Choose wisely and sleep well
Or with the devil prepare to dwell.
Samson you would recall
Saw Delilah as his all
But in her tender embrace
He had a terrible fall.
A face was all it took
With a bewitching smile,
Delilah had claimed her prize
And Samson was defiled.
Then came his end
Though with much consolation,
As the audience applauded
He effected their destruction.
He had walked knowingly
Into their clever trap
But after in his blindness
Reduced them to mere scrap.
Many are not as fortunate
As in the case of Samson,
They pay an inordinate sum
As a wife-demanded ransom.
Novelty soon wears off
The honey leaves the moon
And all that’s left in the marriage
Is a witch on a broom.
Memories don’t leave like people do
But some quickly disappear
Leaving regret and alimony
And a life of gloom and despair.
Stewart Russell © September 2017
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