Dissolving a Marriage

Boredom drives people to distraction
but loneliness finds them in a vast
and endless wasteland. There are
times when the former leads to the
latter but it is only experiencing the
deep dudgeon of a final rejection
and the spiral of being drawn into that
black hole when it becomes clear how
we are sometimes the authors of our
own hollow victories. Like the challenge
of attracting the opposite sex when the
routines of long-time marriage pall
then the inevitable unravelling of the
conjugal bond ensues for though 
arousal is the brief reward the gloom
of discovery and tears of betrayal
sour the thrill. For while many men
are irresistibly attracted to gaming
the covenant of marriage rising to the
occasion of female allure, most women
respond with unappeasable rage. The
gamble's levy is desolation following
dissolution, the binary bliss recalled in
nostalgia, the future dim and lonely. The 
appetite that revelled in opportunities
ravaged by age, dulled and forsaken.