How Terrible His Fate 7.20.2008 Poem by Margaret Alice

Marriage is very necessary,
whatever parents and teachers
left unsaid, my better half
will complement - how bad
my irresponsible behavior,
how evil my lack of ethical
standards, how deplorable
being a bum lying in the sun,
how wrong for me to be born
and he, the most pitiable
martyr of all, should have
ended up with me; I pity him,
my heart burning in shame,
how terrible his fate – now
it is too late for escape….