An exchange,
An attempt,
and an outcome.
Speech, viciously firing at each other.
Days, weeks, months, start to hear arguments.
Not talking anymore,
And still gripping the hands of the other.
Heated by ambitious commitment.

A power,
a fire,
and secrecy.
The day ahead is hard to see.
Talking again, under the fire of each other.
Trust breaking, the two becoming weaker.
Still gripping the hands of the other,
heated by tentative commitment.

Integrity,
a change,
and absence.
His underwhelming movement.
Her interest leaving her body.
It is known what comes next.
He will raise a hand in resignation,
and it will be over.

Concluded at the end of the year.
Given a threshold that cannot be reached.
And denying the world that misled them.
Just another corporate transaction.