Listen carefully,
Do you hear that?
Nothing right?
Eerie, dead-end, no sound.

Silence at its finest.

That's where we are right now.
Two souls with no flame left to burn.
Two people who completely look past each other.
Strangers in one roof.

"I'm going now...I might not come home tonight... We have a business meeting."
Typical excuse. Abused. Exhausted. Pathetic.
But of course,
"Sure, call me when your coming home okay? Be safe."
The good wife never complains.

"She's my client...Let me introduce you to her... You'll absolutely love her!! I'm sure!"
You used to talk about me like that....
ahhhh right, used to.
Past tense.
"Hi! I'm.... His wife..."
The good wife, supposedly, should never question her place in the family.

"I'm eating out with my colleagues and client... I won't be eating here tonight."
I know....
But it wasn't always like this, right?
You used to love eating with me...till you found someone else... someone better..
like her...
You stopped...
I'm no longer the company you want to keep.

"I have a 5-day convention out of town... Keep the house clean and cook for yourself if you want... Text me before you call, don't disturb me so much."
"Do this"
"Do that..."
"I'm not going h-"
I KNOW.
Do you think I'm blind? Stupid?
I am your wife...
In paper, name and picture...
but deep down... we both know the truth...
I'm the woman you used to love...
the woman who used to own your heart...

All I am now... is an illusion... a façade... an ornament to add to your seemingly perfect life...
I know everything...but... my mother's voice remains...
'The good wife plays ignorant to her husband's deceits to keep the family whole.'
I can endure more.
I will last.

"where is it?"
"what?"
"Your ring. Where is it? Why aren't you wearing it?"
"What for?...
Why should I wear something that is no longer mine...
It belongs to the wife.
Not the woman who has your name attached to hers...
I am no longer 'the' wife."
"... I..."
"Don't worry... I'll never tell...
after all, the good wife will keep the skeletons buried... for your sake...my husband."
"....I...let me..."
"Come on... Let's get this show started."

The good wife remains.

[❣ Dead End by Anna Clendening]

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