A Shipboard Romance (A Silly Ditty.No.1)

A man and a woman on either side of a fence For long strangers, once met by sheer chance A spark of love was lit in an instance Its flame was fanned through many a glance And eventually got blazed into a hot romance Until it was steadied through an alliance Their minds then went upbeat in a dance Life breathed out a new fragrance And their faces gleamed in a rare radiance But soon their love was tested through penance Days slouched on without any parlance Until their life was couched in dumb silence In secret, they nursed many a grievance And saw each other with a vengeance It often took a turn of violence From this bondage, they longed for a riddance And through a divorce, finally sought a deliverance