Marriage without love is a hell for two.
How would you live? What would you do?
Leave and sigh, or stay and lie.
Your choices are easy, so what would you do?
No one would leap into hell; even if you leave, the pain can never subside.
But would you try to leap over it, if heaven lay on the other side?
Or would you stay in purgatory and try to hide?
Marriage with love is a paradise.
Is it worth it to roll the dice?
Knowing the punishment for one mistake?
This choice is not as easy to make.
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ReplyDeletelet's all rip off a shakespere quote while we're here.
Even though you put a terrible shakespere verse in there at the very top I agree wit your ideas on Holdens character, and actions by him, he said something bad to what's her face and got sucker punched in the go-nads THAT WAS HIS PUNISHMENT FOR ONE MISTAKE...figuratively...(unless I wrote it wrong from Holden's perspective...)
THAT is the answer
I forget, in Monk, what layer of hell was speed dating?
ReplyDeletelol, i had no idea that was a Shakespeare quote. Unless you were talking about "To marry or not to marry?", but that wasn't part of the poem.
ReplyDeleteThe reason i didn't do it from Holden's perspective was just because i hated how specific the assignment was. There for i made no mistake! Take that Doug! or James or whatever.
This sounds like a demonic Dr. Suess poem.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of treating marriage as simple as 'rolling the dice.' Intriguing poem, Kyle!
ReplyDeletei like it...
ReplyDeleteit even worked with rhyme!! a novelty!