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"The Affair"

What she wanted did not matter,
What mattered was people’s chatter.
Whether she was in love or not,
Did not matter at all,
Because he had bought
An awful lot of things,
Jewels and rings,
Just to impress her family,
To make sure this would guarantee
That she would be married to him,
Because that was his wish and whim.

And then when she had an affair,
Everyone thought it was unfair.
“How could she do this?” they whispered,
And they chattered, as if they cared.

But she was not as scared
As they imagined she would be.
She chose herself, not the sacred
Jail of loveless matrimony.

Her lover was not perfect, either,
Just a pill for her love fever,
And when she got burned,
They said she had learned
That a sinner would pay
Every single day
For all her carnal sins
Before friends and kins.

But she did not sell
Her heart, and rebelled
Against all who thought
A woman could be bought
That she could never betray
A man, even if she had to say
No to herself, and stay
All her life in a pretty jail.

And when she got burned,
They said she had learned
That a sinner would pay
Every single day
For all her carnal sins
Before friends and kins.

But she did not sell
Her heart, and rebelled
Against all who thought
A woman could be bought
That she could never betray
A man, even if she had to say
No to herself, and stay
All her life in a pretty jail.