HAVING AN AFFAIR.

I suppose it's different now;
Judging by what I've seen
Either in the cinema
Or on the TV screen.

Young couples meet by chance,
Decide that they will pair,
And in a nano-second
Talk of having an affair!
They're hopping into bed
Before they're even friends,
And equally as quickly,
The sudden passion ends!
In my young day it was different;
Gentlemen sugared the pill;
They always said 'I love you'
And, sometimes, 'I always will'.
They didn't mean a word of it,
But we were so naive
That we just went along with it,
Just wanting to believe.
'A love-affair' was the title
Given after the event,
When nice young girls discovered
What really had been meant.
(I don't refer to 'the real thing',
An actual romance,
But to the meeting-and-parting
Social game of chance.)
'An affair' was often illicit,
Which added a touch of spice,
And I speak from experience;
I've been there.........only twice.
I didn't know they were 'affairs'
Until they were in the past;
I always felt it was 'true love',
Something I thought would last.
Today's approach is honest,
Though clinical, it seems.
I think I prefer sixty years ago,
Even with the shattered dreams.