What makes a marriage last?
Love
Respect
Trust
Understanding
Listening
Patience
Friendship
Tolerance
Faith and selflessness.
Any more virtues?
Wonderful when in love
all attributes for virtues
are in harmonious balance.
Then thru’ the tooth of
time
decay affects body and
mind.
For the spouse it’s anger
and more anger
mounting day by day –
For she still dreams of
having missed a career as
a successful model –
Comparing her eyes
to Romy’s eyes.
For the artist life –
since he delved into his
preferred world of art –
He’s never given up to be
a good artist
Bohemian in spirit
striving to be above the
rest of fellow artists and
educated people
especially those who had
remarks of ridicule.
His spouse blames the
artist
of having given her a bad
tip
that had cost her 78,60 E
but her handwriting read
38,60. It sucks.
This – he answered with
a reply note in red ink
will be the last time he’ll
honours a payment she
had blamed him for.
In his anger he spit on the
floor still cursing her:
I will put together an account
of what you still owe to me!
He ranted at a woman
he once knew was lovely
but now appeared as a shadow
of a Holocaust survivor.
You have died for me…
She said.
Why would she let her anger
out on him
if her words were his words
directed against her?
DEATH.HTAED
Zoltanzelan
©ZJG-POetry’17