Desserts Of Self Deceit Poem by John Sensele

A love triangle
Thrives on deceit
Spurring and storing an avuncular angle
Whose conclusion renders a disrespect receipt.

One and one make two
The perfect relationship
Built beautifully on cue
To relate partners on a shimmery ship.

A third heart
Steals warmth and sows trouble
Setting a couple on a doubt dart
That adds sorrow on the double.

No guarantee a relationship breaker
Injects happiness
Where opportunism characterizes the relationship wrecker
Who succeeds only in unfolding untold misery and unhappiness.

A cheater deludes herself
Greener grass thrives in the lie
She lives rubbing salt into a self
Driving at high speed into a sorrow sty gone awry.

Self delusion no good
For any couple
Regardless of the meandering mood
That can't render the relationship more supple.