The Cuckold

He watches her/as she dents her pulse points/oil…/scent meets scent/preparing her for her latest foray/into the cavedom far from her sanctuary/thinking all is unknown/her love of long ago/is powerless to pull her/into his embrace…once able to invoke the smoken scent of familiar love/he stills his mind/yet his darkeyes follow her across the room/pendulum tock/steeling his heart against the image of the cad/stealing into HIS sanctuary/plucking the breath from his lungs/his touch on her back/she pulls away/evading his breath on her neck/she cannot remember her/satisfied sighs of free comfort/in her bold boy’s arms/her lust driving her further and further away/from her hearth now cold/dead embers of unappreciated ardor/she rebuffs the husband of her heart/housing her hope/in a callous hunter/consumed by the raging bushfire he has set in her desert heart/she slams the door/secret streetwalker/in her mind swaying dreams of her co-fornicator’s rabid touch/diseased “hickies”/ poisoning from blood to bone/deep in her reverie she does not think to look/wham!!!!/rag doll rolling over the dark silken hood of that deadly Fiat/smack!!! sickening crunch!/Fiat over extended pulse point/Fiat slinks away/life slowly leaving her/dying heart whispers for her life-love/but he does not hear/he does not care/he watches as she dies/from across the street/black fiat blackened window/black eyes/jealousy blackened heart/now two dead hearts/never to live again.