A Woman's Scorn

When you left a piece of me died that day

My entire universe had gone astray

No more pennies in heaven left to pay

Had to get on my knees to pray,

Reaching into my chest tearing out my heart

What happens when man and woman part

I should have known right from the start

Sorrow and agony off the charts,

You never were much on loyalty or respect

Somehow though I was still there to protect

But you had this emotional defect

I should have been able to detect,

Things just rolled along

Like a scattered and fractured song

I thought our love was strong

But my Dear I was merely wrong,

Often I’d thought if life was worth living

After all I had been giving

Somehow fate had cut that string

You and your ill-fated fling,

They say all is fair in love and war

Some say only vengeance settles the score

Others ask, “What is life for?”

While others can’t pick themselves up off the floor

Oh the demons I have adored

Thought I was a real man when I scored

I asked her why her dress was torn

Just another victim of a woman’s scorn.