If your partner seeks others for love and consolation,
There’s nothing left of your marriage but sheer desolation.
When people no longer are for one another and love is gone,
Don’t hang around hoping things will change and you can carry on.

If one partner doesn’t want the other,
He’ll always be searching for another after another.
Soon violence will set in and love turns to hurt,
Don’t let your mate drag you through the dirt.

Violence is the last refuge of incompetence,
Fear feeds on it until realization brings about repentance.
So why punish yourself over and over again,
Your mate is not punished for their sins, but by them.

By Ann Leyh