Consummation

Quiet consummation have:

And renowned be thy grave!

      —Shakespeare, Cymbeline

 

 

Consumed by attraction-of-opposite’s fire;

Consumed by longing, consumed by desire;

Consumed by the fear of being alone;

Consumed by the need for a love of their own;

Consumed by compulsion bred in the bone;

(Assumed: estrogen/testosterone);

Consumed by the need of His sanction above 

(Consumed by the need to make lust into love);

Consumed by the need to be loved, and to burn;

Consumed by the need to make love in return;

Consumed with the pressure to couple, conform;

Consumed with the need to be part of the norm;

Consumed by the ache for security;

Consumed by the hunger for family;

Consumed by each cell’s biological drive;

Consumed, through DNA, to stay alive;

Consumed by the impulse of getting ahead;

Consumed by convention, convenience, they wed;

Consumed by passion, they fall into bed;

Consumed by satiety soon in its stead;

Consumed by exhaustion, as soon they’re sedated.

(Presumed: the marriage is consummated).…

 

Consumed with keeping their union together;

Consumed by ennui, temptation (the whether);

Consumed by the need for intimacy;

Consumed by the bounds of fidelity;

Consumed by monogamy’s tyranny;

Consumed by suppressed promiscuity;

Consumed by the stigma of failure, divorce;

Consumed by loss-of-freedom’s remorse;

Consumed with seeming each other’s best friend;

Consumed by the children, work, time, in the end 

Consumed by each other.

 

One makes the assumption:

They died of natural causes: consumption.