What God hath joined, of old the Bible says,
let mankind not divide on pain of sin
though no one blinks an eye in present days
when fathers recklessly abandon wife and kin.
Sad though it be, it is conceded now
that partners may be spurned once beauty's gone
regardless of the grave and solemn vow
which at God's altar fused two lives as one.
The children and the partner, cut adrift, left in a flat where poverty abounds
discover soon that he was very swift
to choose again, despite their pleading sounds.
Yet whereas he revels though they must endure
God's just mills are grinding, slowly but sure.
Luky Whittle
