A forever underworld
promised the valley
beneath engagement rings
to the essence
of an excuse
through a whisper,
that of cheaters
ring all true.
I’ll feign this
decision I made
in a drunken
slumber of an
ardent voice, succumbing
my will to
say, I do.

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