He Said And She Said Poem by Francis Duggan

He Said.

For more than twenty years we lived as man and wife together
And some happy moments with her I can recall
But more often than not she was sour and cranky
And she was quite a nagger over all.

She did not want me socializing with my mates down at the Local
In the evening after work for a few ales two or three
And always when I'd go home she'd accost me
With you put your mates before your wife and family

And when she accused me of having my bit on the side I denied it
What else would one expect a man to do,
I could not tell her I was satisfying myself elsewhere
Though she gave me the feeling that she knew?

My sexual needs she had not been satisfying
And our marriage it had become a sex free zone
And lying side by side in bed with her for me no pleasure
I may as well have been sleeping on my own.

Till we slept in separate beds our love had perished
And our marriage it had gone into decay
And I feel happier since she did divorce me
And without her I feel better off today.

And with my mates I now can drink until late
And when I go home she is not there to say
To me again, don't tell me you've been drinking,
I'm single now and single I will stay.

She Said.

I left him for the time was ripe to leave him
Since our son and daughter nowadays work for pay
And any love between us was long over
And with him I could not grow old and gray.

For to stay with him would not be to my advantage
And by leaving one like him how could I lose?
When he'd come home from the public bar each evening
He smelt so strongly of the stench of booze.

I knew that he was seeing another woman
Our last six years together was sex free
I could not make love to an alcoholic
As the stench of booze a thing that sickens me.

But what he did not know is that I too had a lover
And him I love and we are soon to wed
A kinder man by far than my ex husband
And more fun to be with and better by far in bed.

I wasted twenty years of my life with him
Suppose I never ought to have become his wife
But now I'm with a far more loving fellow
And with him I will know a happier life.