Seriously Spoke Poem by Terry Collett

And there is
that thought

he may not return
and you fear he

may have seen
the letters that you

had hidden
but that you think

he found when
he searched the room

and all because
of that argument

and that thought
in his mind

that I had been
in love with another

and if he has
found the letters

he will read there
everything that

has been in my mind
and what I thought

had felt about Jacques
and if he reads the letters

and smells the perfume
I put there

and sees my words
burning into the pages

and the x
on the bottom of the letters

and what we did
and how and where

and when
he will know

and me as his wife
and he my husband

will be nothing more then
than a joke

like that amusement
in my mind

as he
seriously spoke.