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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365890" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Betrayal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd come home unexpectedly, <br>I know I should have said, <br>But found you with another man<br>Both sleeping, in our bed, <br>I have no words to censure you<br>No words to spell my grief, <br>But years of trust have shattered, <br>You betrayed me with a thief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What have I done, these thirty years<br>To turn your face from me, <br>That love you swore, undying<br>Now just some anomaly? <br>You opened up our secret place<br>For some dark stranger's whim, <br>What does he have that I must lack, <br>Why did you go with him? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I left you both there sleeping<br>Staggered down to nurse my pride, <br>Pacing back and forth the hallway<br>With my future to decide, <br>But my heart was drained, quite empty<br>I could see no way ahead, <br>And the dearth that came upon me<br>Cried, ‘I wish that I was dead! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My eyes betrayed me, watered<br>Down my cheeks, so grey and lined, <br>You will never see me crying<br>Though the Lord should strike me blind! <br>Then I saw you on the stairway<br>With your gown bunched at your throat, <br>With that look of horror, branded<br>And your scream, that one high note.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a moment, you recovered, <br>And your face took on a sneer, <br>‘So you caught us, I'm not bothered, <br>You'd not usually be here! '<br>Then her lover lumbered down<br>And put his arm around her waist, <br>He was young, and lithe, embarrassed, <br>Couldn't look me in the face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Thirty years we've been together, <br>Thirty years, and now to this, <br>Tell me, what have you discovered<br>From a brief, flirtatious kiss? <br>Just how long d'you think you'll keep him<br>From the girls around his age? '<br>‘It's enough he says he needs me, <br>Gives me youth again, we Rage! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I packed a few necessities<br>And turned to leave them there, <br>I was leaving half a lifetime<br>In a mood of deep despair, <br>‘So you're sure, ' I muttered, turning<br>And she nodded once, but slow, <br>I thought, as I looked briefly back, <br>‘Please ask me not to go! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 December 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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I know I should have said, 
But found you with another man
Both sleeping, in our bed, 
I have no words to censure you
No words to spell my grief, 
But years of trust have shattered, 
You betrayed me with a thief.

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