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"THE END OF THE AFFAIR" I
6 July 00
Manipulated one more time
While sitting wide-eyed in the dark,
I watched as love, betrayed, sublime,
Went walking in the rainy park.
Adultery was in the right,
And jealousy was all-misplaced:
No secret meetings in the night,
But sunlight where the two embraced.
And when you thought the tale was told,
Came one last wrenching tour de force:
So innocent a kiss, behold!
Turned night to day, and cart to horse:
Our weakness, cruelty and sin
Makes way, and heaven rushes in.


"THE END OF THE AFFAIR" II
6 July 00
Why did my tears well up and I
Not move a hand to stop their fall?
Why did this fiction, this bald lie
Pierce my long-thickened hide at all?
One’s cruelties I recognized,
His jealous rage fit like a glove;
In his contorted face, surprised,
I saw the shadows of my love.
The other’s faults and fears I’d known,
His knowledge of his failure, too,
Not weakness or distress alone,
But knowing what he could not do.
Two hearts broke there; in every line
I felt it, for they lived in mine.

[great work by Stephen Rea, Julianne Moore,
and even by Pretty-boy Fiennes, the elder ]