Should
have known
that
their
love was unraveling
that
soon it
would be yanked from under his feet
when
Marlow stopped smiling when he came home from work
when
Marlow forgot his birthday
when
Marlow spent more and more time away.
Perhaps
if he’d
known
things
would be different
if he’d
brought a dozen red roses instead of just the one
if he’d
done more to show his love
perhaps
Marlow wouldn’t have taken up with a stranger
perhaps
they’d still be a family
perhaps
their family would even have grown
perhaps
he wouldn’t
now
be
alone.
Perhaps
the woman in the wind
wouldn’t
be whispering
now
in his
ear
telling
him all the things he did wrong
telling
him all the things he could have done better.
Perhaps.
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