We Learn As We Live

She was so in love with him on the day she became his wife She thought that their marriage it would last for life But love can have it's heartaches as some like to say And she is far wiser than she was today Her marriage to him only lasted two years For the love of another he left her in tears He left her for to raise their child on her own The tougher side of life she is one who has known Her son lives in London last year he turned twenty three It has been over two years since him she last see But he sometimes phones her and each week without fail They keep in contact online by email Though the passage of time on the features does tell For one in her late forties she looks rather well Though she has some gray in her hair of light brown Two decades ago one of the beauties of the town It can be said of her once bitten twice shy Since she will not give marriage another try She does seem quite happy in her own company We learn as we live that's how it seems to be.