To my friends’ Spouses with a friend’s love

    To  my friends’ Spouses with a friend’s love

P K Routray

To my friends’ loving spouses

with earnest apologies for excuses

on behalf of  your hubby and my friend

for some unspelled truths here are penned

to let you know how much to you he did love or lie.

that You must truly know him before a final  good bye.

A friend knows his friend better than his friend’s wife

because of growing together sharing tit bits since the tender age of life.

Our friends are neither demon nor divine deity

but a vexing mixture of traits of demon and divinity.

While conversing love with you with full attention

like a butterfly his lust might take him to a beauty unknown.

His binocular ranges from seventeen to seventy

Our adolescent analysis has instilled in my friend such notoriety.

Of Course as true friends from a pact in life we never did depart.

“Adore we the lady who occupies even temporarily our friend’s heart.”

You have murmured that you received a present from us in the rarest occasion

but we cherish the pride hidden in your eye displaying it to your companion.

Fastidious remained your taste we failed to satisfy ever

and your penetrating whisper we always did fear.

“Woman remains ever a mystery” we discussed in our students days

With experience of five decades with you the saying remains ablaze.

Once isolated from you over a mug of beer we had a discussion

to find out a formula “To easily satisfy a wife” for younger generation

it looked too big a proposition beyond our comprehension

similar to an attempt to drink out all water of the pacific ocean.

Once after our superannuation we had a brainstorming session

as to how much we prize you as our this life’s possession

“If we get a chance to go back to those days just after college

and the Almighty offers a choice to opt on a girl for our marriage

with new one being besieged with uncertainty unknown

or old one that are you with your mystery so far as known’

out of two choices we chose you without hesitation

as “ known devil is better than angel unknown.”

It is a lighter vein pronunciation

but underlies our deep love for you from our heart’s bottom.

Some of you younger in age have left our friends leaving him alone

We pray for their departed souls with our friends in unison.

From the friends of your husband accept our gratitude

for serving our friend through thick thin of difficulties of mammoth magnitude

serving him when he is frustrated with life

shouldering and sharing the burden of his strife

serving him when he is ill nursing him from his bedside

controlling him as his mother did when he was child.