Leaving At The Final Moment.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

your marriage is destined
to be ruined

no one causes it
except you: you simply believed

that with your beauty and grace
and fortune

despite your rude manners and
inconsiderate and insensitive

treatment of the man you love
and who loves you most

you still believe that he cannot
leave you

well, he just did it.
you see, it is not impossible

for a man humiliated to finally
come to his senses

that he can still cope up with
himself, carry his age with dignity

and live his life the way
he wanted it: without you.