But it is not a typical scene
The unease is there
Beneath the surface
Because he is not there
And she will never be the same
Her eyes are red-rimmed
You can tell she's been crying
But she will not spill her tears
Here in this room
Despite her physique
Despite the scandal
She is a proud girl still
Though she is surrounded by others
Chattering endlessly, monotonously
There is a circle of silence about her
As she thinks of the baby
And the father it will never know
She shouldn't have told him
It had been too sudden
He hadn't been prepared
And it had hit him like an atom bomb on Hiroshima
He did not believe
Could not believe that it had happened
That he was partly responsible
For this thing that would change his life
He wasn't ready.
But she wasn't either
She wanted to join him
But she wasn't as free as he had been
She was caring for two
And she couldn't destroy the innocent
Afterwards though…
After it was born she would join him
She couldn't keep it anyway
And it would no longer need her
And she would have peace.