Decree Absolute

Here starts my single life,
if life it can be termed –
today the mail confirmed
I am no longer wife;
though what it is I am
still seems to be in doubt;
my flame not lit, not out,
yet flickers, such a sham!

And how it came to this
I still don't understand
our marriage was so grand
and now I ache… I miss…
Determinedly I smile;
I want no-one to know
how old and sad I grow;
I shall go out in style.