Nightmares and loss

She woke with a small despairing cry

Her nightmare had awoken her to find
Empty space beside her form where he once
Would lay and comfort her with words of kind
Observance from lips fondly to dispense
Kisses and now the pillow; empty, cold
Entwined in sheets instead of manly thighs
Weeping for a stolen heart much made old
In fear of loneliness, cruelly dispised
The second hand stutters out it's lament
Hopeless to the cries of those still lain crushed
A lesser woman broken and unbent
Slain by the daggers wielded in his lust

Marriage is a state only to survive
A loss of self within our common strife

Loss of Love

Like cruel fate to fire us, unwanted, urged
Destroying our control over ourselves
Escaping the ailment, now we are purged
Spurning our weakness and what it compels
Perhaps this is forgiven as atoned?
A mistake to be paid and then to grow
Insanity of man and lust bemoaned
Redemable by mercy of it's blow
In through the darkness of the hall and stair
Night creeps with me to lie by her, sleeping
Golden hair dulled, sullied by my affair
Can she suspect they ended this evening?

Right proper is my love of this wife true
Yet can't know my adultery is through

From loss to loss

Real smoke billows from embers of his love
Oh, to be the wife that wakes beside him!
Marriage; a hand bade me the mistress glove
Hence to be discarded on a whim
Ever hidden, ever last, ever lone
Required to be groomed and well disposed
Never to demand him a hearth and home
In grateful scraps of time I am exposed
Girl like youth and passion will not linger
How easily his eye begins to dull
Then I am to follow at his finger
More space between us as our meetings lull

Affairs do sour and grief is wrong to feel
Remembering this nightmare's stab of steel

Ending here, this acrostic trilogy


based on the prompt; 'She woke with a small despairing cry from her nightmare'

Triple headed Shakespearian sonnet, acrostic! Now that WAS a challenge!
(abab cdcd efef gg)
Phew - Am off for a lie down
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