If I Had Married You Instead of Her

Music: Prelude in E minor. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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If I had married you instead of her, I would not now be seething with regret, Trapped by children, choked by dreams that were My hopes before my life turned desolate. I would not now be seething with regret For having married more for lust than love. My hopes before my life turned desolate Now live but in the darkness where you move. For having married more for lust than love, I'm punished with a wife whom I despise. I live but in the darkness where you move, My hopes the harvest of your haunting eyes. I'm punished with a wife whom I despise, Trapped by children, choked by dreams that were My hopes . . . The harvest of your haunting eyes, If I had married you instead of her.