love for sale

Pic: Self

saw a sign,
maybe a sign
of the times,

seemed rather
hurriedly
written,

in desperately
scribbled
but legible letters,

“love for sale –
ex-spouse holds
a grouse,

needs money
to prove
my real worth,

love seems
to have lost
it’s shine,

the greens rule
in this often
misty world,

need to pay
the debt
of a partnership,

originally entered
for the entirety
of life,

misconstrued
as a monetary deal
by seemingly all,

a marriage that was
but now
apparently over,

need to encash
my only
real treasure,

that
surprisingly
seems,

to have
little value
for most,

buy me for love
for that is all
i am worth”

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Vidur
26Aug17