was his story,
the history of
his undoing,
his loss of
integrity and
freedom
of movement,
the start of
sobriety, of his
enlightenment,
his learning
the value of
any woman,
of his wife,
of me. And
the rules of
of society.
The start
of a future
free of his
resentment
of me.
©2011 Bonnie Manion