February Homework - Thoughts on Betrayal
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:16 pm
Well, I don’t mean to be a miserable sod, but I’ve gone for the last prompt because I already had a few lines of it written from a while back and due to a ghastly eye infection this week, I can’t spend too much time on the computer so it seemed smart to finish it. I’m actually going to put two views on the subject here, because one is somewhat negative whilst the rondel highlights the power of forgiveness to heal and therefore balances out the first one a bit. The outcome of such painful experiences can go either way - it depends of course, on the two people involved...
Betrayal
Between life’s harsh reality and searing flights of fantasy,
a yearning for what used to be consumed each waking hour.
Accused of great dependency she struggled onwards valiantly,
despite the shocking changes that were threatening to devour.
No more the loving gentleness, the whispered words, the soft caress,
but only bitter words with venom spitting out her name.
From disbelief, uncertainty to shrinking pain and agony,
she helplessly observed with dread the stranger he became.
Till hope was gone and finally she turned her back reluctantly,
still longing for the man he used to be, but now bereft.
Resigned to abject misery, his crazed insensitivity
and desperate for a friendly face, she dried her tears and left.
At first he laughed triumphantly, then cursed her uncontrollably—
his freedom didn’t bring the joy he’d set his heart upon.
He grasped his gross stupidity not grasping with a certainty
the depth of how he’d loved her, till that morning she was gone.
Then realizing gradually that it was not dependency
that made him feel so trapped, as if she needed love to live,
but beautiful simplicity, immeasurable loyalty,
and only that she had so much within her heart to give.
Beginning with complacency, he’d turned to infidelity,
till undeserved contempt had stolen all respect away.
The worm had turned indifferently, his guilt displayed aggressively,
and now regret consumed him every moment of the day.
He pondered pleas for clemency, assured of generosity,
but knew he couldn’t change a single cruel word or threat;
though wounds would fade eventually, and she’d support him faithfully,
the saddest fact remains that we can never quite forget.
Though strength of will knows victory, forgiveness is a remedy
and lives can be rebuilt, true love grow stronger, so they claim,
while reunited happily, the truth of harsh reality
means trust is lost forever—it is never quite the same.
Rondel to Forgiveness
The storm is weathered, peace has come at last,
As sunlight pierces dark forbidding sky.
We’ve cheated death together, you and I,
If we maintain the calm, forgive the past.
So cruel the words we spoke, the dies we cast,
Suspicion and destruction with each lie—
The storm is weathered, peace has come at last,
As sunlight pierces dark forbidding sky.
Betrayal and complacency struck fast,
And horrified, we watched love gone awry—
Yet now in wonder, feel it magnify
As reunited, with fresh hope we sigh;
The storm is weathered, peace has come at last.
Betrayal
Between life’s harsh reality and searing flights of fantasy,
a yearning for what used to be consumed each waking hour.
Accused of great dependency she struggled onwards valiantly,
despite the shocking changes that were threatening to devour.
No more the loving gentleness, the whispered words, the soft caress,
but only bitter words with venom spitting out her name.
From disbelief, uncertainty to shrinking pain and agony,
she helplessly observed with dread the stranger he became.
Till hope was gone and finally she turned her back reluctantly,
still longing for the man he used to be, but now bereft.
Resigned to abject misery, his crazed insensitivity
and desperate for a friendly face, she dried her tears and left.
At first he laughed triumphantly, then cursed her uncontrollably—
his freedom didn’t bring the joy he’d set his heart upon.
He grasped his gross stupidity not grasping with a certainty
the depth of how he’d loved her, till that morning she was gone.
Then realizing gradually that it was not dependency
that made him feel so trapped, as if she needed love to live,
but beautiful simplicity, immeasurable loyalty,
and only that she had so much within her heart to give.
Beginning with complacency, he’d turned to infidelity,
till undeserved contempt had stolen all respect away.
The worm had turned indifferently, his guilt displayed aggressively,
and now regret consumed him every moment of the day.
He pondered pleas for clemency, assured of generosity,
but knew he couldn’t change a single cruel word or threat;
though wounds would fade eventually, and she’d support him faithfully,
the saddest fact remains that we can never quite forget.
Though strength of will knows victory, forgiveness is a remedy
and lives can be rebuilt, true love grow stronger, so they claim,
while reunited happily, the truth of harsh reality
means trust is lost forever—it is never quite the same.
Rondel to Forgiveness
The storm is weathered, peace has come at last,
As sunlight pierces dark forbidding sky.
We’ve cheated death together, you and I,
If we maintain the calm, forgive the past.
So cruel the words we spoke, the dies we cast,
Suspicion and destruction with each lie—
The storm is weathered, peace has come at last,
As sunlight pierces dark forbidding sky.
Betrayal and complacency struck fast,
And horrified, we watched love gone awry—
Yet now in wonder, feel it magnify
As reunited, with fresh hope we sigh;
The storm is weathered, peace has come at last.