Wave After Wave Of Reverses Poem by John Sensele

Wave after wave of reverses
Upon my life rained
Although Bible verses
My heart craned and strained

To read
To divert
To knead
To insert

Into the dustbin of history
Which in the pain served a cathartic purpose
As in empathy and sympathy my story
It did endorse

To keep my bearing on an even keel
Assuaging my pain
Endeavouring to kill
The despair I felt in the rain

As the full horror
Of the betrayal he committed
In the context of the egregious error
He admitted

Into the love I felt he gave
In full measure
I could no longer save
From the ephemeral pleasure

I felt he pretended unto me
To offer
Cos for once my way clear I could see in the blues sea
Where I could no longer suffer

As a doting wife
Whom he took for granted
To rain wave upon wave of strife
Although I dare say for good reasons I sometimes ranted.