The Riddle Master

The Riddle Master asked a woman struggling in a lost loveless marriage. This paradoxical necessary philosophical inquiring riddle! “If the longed for lover is of good honourable heart; gave everything while he had nothing; gave all he had ever gotten proving repeatedly; how precious is a noble heart... why then did the man who had everything; give nothing at all? ” “For that man who took your everything; you poured out lovingly; love from the depths; defining your heart.” “Then you twisted your soul he called you a bore, humiliated you while steadily stealing, your innocence; twisting the knife cruelly more and more.” “Why then are you still with the man who took everything? ” “The man who came with the career and luxury car.” The answer is ever locked within many years of marriage, a couple of children a house full of memories, a long history of knowing each other intimately; for such a long long time. For the young, single, and carefree fool, the appeal of attentive flashy fraud courting; proves to be a fatal irresistible force; that must burn out youth’s passion painfully. Now you console yourself with allure of the material shopping friends, your children, and an old old saying; ‘better the devil you know, than the one you don’t’ don’t you know your children will leave, they grow? Copyright © Terence George Craddock Written in January 2000 on the 9.1.2000.