He spent a lifetime 

Reading books that she had read,

So he could try to understand he sense of dread

She had for her life to come.

He dropped his jaw

When he came to the story

Of Miss Havisham,

And dropped the syllabus from his hand,

And dropped out of the hard knock school

That was loving her,

For he,too, had jilted someone at the altar

And had never given a damn til now.

But now he saw how it may have been for her,

But he could also see

How rather dreadful it would be for him today,

Had he gone through with it.

-jenn