The Situation Poet Rhyme

How Much Love Do We Lose

Sometimes defend sometimes accused
Memory details the excuses used

Always the hardship either temper or tears
Always heart ache the victim of fears

The blindness we use is a terrible excuse
The worst thing given for self abuse

The lies, the hiding, the not providing
The shame, the game, the celibate reign

The past revealing awful thoughts
The trust once present now the lost

The constant reminder of a broken heart
The hurt not healing though hardly fought

The constant lying of a cheating spouse
The everyday deeds of a dirty louse

The absence, the silence, while present shown 
The arrogance, the vengeance, that hate has grown

Evidence lingers where once unknown
Yet waiting desires though now alone

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Beryl Edmonds August 7, 2023 at 12:03 AM Bad things happen for sad reasons, but love and forgiveness changes everything, if there’s a spark of romance have that last dance… Belle The Situation August 7, 2023 at 7:39 PM I like this advice.

Andrea Dietrich August 1, 2023 at 2:08 PM A sad one but it happens souch on society

Eileen Manassian July 31, 2023 at 1:27 AM Wow! A tough subject to tackle in Poetic form, but you've done well. Love the internal rhyme. We hide what we can face. It's sometimes easier... as they say... ignorance is bliss, but then again, how can we grow?

Robert Lindley July 30, 2023 at 8:15 AM Yes, you nailed it with this one. Excuses, excuses, excuses, never make up for the one that cheats. Buy we humans like to reason up excuses to try to excuse when we are doing wrong. Your poem this couplet nails it-- " The constant lying of a cheating spouse The everyday deeds of a dirty louse".. A fav. another dark poetry scores. God bless.

Judy Ball July 29, 2023 at 4:41 PM When a spouse cheats there are always 100 reasons why that person chose to stray. However, No excuse is ever a good enough reason to break your vows made before God. Talk it out with God then talk it over with your spouse and then see a marriage counselor. Good piece4 here. God Bless, JB

The Situation July 29, 2023 at 4:17 PM remind me

Sara Kendrick July 29, 2023 at 3:12 PM Well, sometimes relationship go sour for one reason or another. It takes two to make a marriage and it is never just one person's fault. Always some reason/s why behind the divorce on both sides. Thanks for sharing. Sara

Chris Conn July 28, 2023 at 5:01 PM Still they say " love conquers all."

Vijay Pandit July 28, 2023 at 3:08 PM The absence, the silence, while present shown The arrogance, the vengeance, that hate has grown--a perfect description of why love cannot sustain in such an environment. The ending line says it all.