Explanation

He hadn't touched her in years
He no longer desired her body
To him sex was something too dear
If for her love was not also embodied

Their relationship to him had seemed dead
And he was left with the empty feeling
For companionship there's something to be said
But it was passion that he found appealing

He had recently located another
For whom he felt powerful attraction
A promising Cybernet lover
With the potential of touching interaction

He needed to stop being craven
And just come out with the truth
He had recently been misbehaving
To keep silent would be mental abuse

His Net lady let him relive romance
And it appeared that she was his type
Since he yearned for a second chance
The time for an admission was ripe

"The best thing for me is to leave
I need a separation to think things through
And in spite of what you believe
There is nothing you can say now or do"

"I don't understand why," she said
biting her lip in ill-tempered frustration
As she wrestled to find comfort in bed
In a room of suddenly-chilled alienation

They lay stiffly facing each other
Divided only by thin flimsy sheets
But the gulf that he had uncovered
Was too far for them ever to meet

"You're afraid of intimacy," she cried
With strident accusation so heated
But he responded "I've felt empty inside,
And my needs were not being heeded"

People often feel love in dissimilar fashions
Some like quality time, while others like gifts
Some like caring, affection, compassion
And such differences at times can cause rifts

There is a moral to this unhappy tale
You might think that you're being loving
But such efforts will ultimately fail
If your loved one can't too feel that loving

When you are raised by parents above you
In a fashion that your wife doesn't share
The absence of hearing "I love you"
Can be interpreted as "I don't care"

He was a man for whom love was verbal
And her tacit affection was not enough
She tried everything but remedies herbal
But her speech deficit was apparently too tough

He had told her so many times before
"I don't feel loved unless I hear it"
And when he finally gave up, closing doors
She lost love because she ultimately feared it