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Decisions are all taken, and I'm now manoeuvering

to move in a positive direction, hoping to find

the kindest (and friendliest) possible exit that I can,

from this man's amorous concern to remain my tutor.

The fruitful vistas have all been explored, (exhausted

from source,) so I now discern but tangled growth

where I'm loath to enter. I'll stick to the simpler life

of a wife and children, as the formula intended for adoption.

Copulatory guilt never marred the occasional

days when he sought my company. But that's of the past!

At last the cleansing embrace of a woman's arms

disarms the terror accumulating in my psyche.

     I'm purged of love's perversion, ill-defined,

     and back in fellowship with humankind.