How Sad!

Compliments were showered

"Wow! Fantastic! 

Nice! Guy! Amazing!

He was smiling & laughing

by each word he heard

but deep down inside

he was holding fear

As more glowing

words poured in

Rather than let his ego respond
within his small circle of friends
suddenly he got up

with the saddest of faces

Someone uttered, 

“Today his wife had left”