I Saw a Painting …
\nby cricketjeff on April 1, 2013.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThey’re making love on borrowed time, beneath another’s skies,
\nThe lips he loves have kissed a man’s before.
\nThe fragile web of soft half truths and unforgiving lies
\nConceal a fate they’ve chosen to ignore.<\/p>\n
He loves his wife but passion’s spent, he needs to feel the burn
\nOf white hot lust with danger on the wing.
\nShe doesn’t care whose heart she breaks and doesn’t choose to learn
\nThe lessons that discovery could bring.<\/p>\n
The orchestra keeps playing so the dancers have to dance,
\nThe morning light’s still many hours away.
\nYou only take the prize if you’re prepared to take a chance
\nBut you could lose what you won yesterday.<\/p>\n
A house of cards can’t face the wind, it tumbles in a breeze,
\nAnd those who toil to build them must be careful not to sneeze.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nI saw, on a poster as I drove through London, a painting of a couple dancing
\npassionately, in full evening dress, very Fred and Ginger, but much earlier. I
\nhave no idea who it was by or what it was intended to represent, but the first
\ntwo stanzas were there by the time I got home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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