A Shipboard Romance (A Sequel.No.2)

After divorce, each sought each one's residence With taste and decorum, they toiled to improve its ambience A complete makeover! That was then their pursuance The new found freedom, was to them, a flower of exotic fragrance When friends approached them with passionate words of condolence And urged them for an unconditional compromise, They announced, marriage was a farce Neither of them expressed any sense of remorse And said, their decision was of mutual concurrence The man found his friends' continued persuasion, a nuisance And the woman openly resented their interference Each expected that singleness would grant them a new allowance But as days passed, they started feeling some annoyance That gradually grew into deep repugnance From what has been expected, they found things at variance. Into their lives, monotony and loneliness were crawling in alliance The songs they heard, no more had any cadence The sunsets, they watched didn't have any brilliance While life around dallied in great ebullience, For them, it tarried in deep turbulence Adversities in hordes plagued them like pestilence And everything around seemed to growl at them in belligerence Day by Day, they found life going adverse And their loneliness growing fierce Deep down, they felt a great annoyance And longed for an immediate deliverance (to be continued)