NIGHT TIME EXODUS (Isabel's Character Monologue)  
 
I gaze down at you, my lover 
This moonlit face beside me 
And I wonder,  
as I ponder  
my exodus, from this- love affair 
Do you  see it? Are they there? 
These ugly imperfections 
 
Does it matter? 
I am just scanning this near-love?s existence 
For just one mistake, that would justify my desire for departure. 
As if my desire for departure was not good enough?   
 
How I long to be  
With myself again! 
by myself again! Alone again 
This incessant longing to be free! (trapped) 
Makes me want to bulldoze this shack  
disguised as some high-end manor-ed house of false luxury  
 
To remain - to stay in this wreckage affair  
I can?t and...  so...  
I ... I leave you now, and with me, I take my heart that had left long ago   
Dearest soul, know that I will remember you, when I rediscover  
old photos of us, tucked away in corners of neglected closets  
and on the bottoms of forgotten dresser drawers 
they will stir up memories of when our edifice once stood.  
And it is your moonlit face that I shall recall.