Don't Curry Your Concubine Poem by John Sensele

Don't take the life of a spouse
Who loses her way and her sense of shame.
Much better to let the louse
Elope with a tarnished name as her crusade claim.

Don't cling to a flame
That's lost her glow
It doesn't pay to apportion blame
Instead, enable courts to apply the full letter of the law.

Don't allow pain, disappointment and frustration
To colour your judgment
Seek in due course arbitration
To secure a failed marriage internment.

Don't invite a jail term
For a morbid murder
When your isotherm
Transmutes into a gangrenous girder.

Don't cling a marriage
Which has hit the bottom of an iceberg
Whose wheels unfasten from the carriage
Which no longer an ferry matrimony to Johannesburg.

Don't repay evil with evil
Despite the strain and stress
That catapult you into the ambit of the Devil
While hands of a concubine you caress as you repress your loss of face.