Shining from a dumpster,
Discarded
So that they no longer lie.

His purity ring, intertwined
With her engagement band

Done decieving everyone who saw them.

His fingers, intertwined
With hers. In the darkness they can't see
The tan lines left by their now broken promises.

That meant so much less, it turns out
Than a soft sigh in his ear, and a real kiss
And a marriage in body, so much more

Than two proprieties, two rings
And all the other fake ideas
That now encircle one another in a dumpster

Below an open apartment window
Where the empty street can hear
The only promises that ever meant a thing.