Divorce And Remarriage Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Fell in love in the set of Cleopatra,
As ardently as queen Cleopatra
And General Mark Antony in the play.
She was twenty eight and he, thirty five.
They had been in love scandal for four years
By when they divorced their spouses and married.
They had been married just for ten years
Of which the later half made them estranged.
They divorced in year 1974,
To be married again after a year,
Which did not last more than a year.
He was her fourth and fifth husband of eight.
He was the one she was drawn most passionately.
She died in 2011 as a divorcee
And he in 1985 as a divorcee.
In spite of passion, love and position,
They could not be a happy couple.
29.02.2016