The Chosen One
The Chosen One!
(1)“Be grateful dear friend that I don’t marry you!”
(2)For all beauty, man’s weakness, is really an act
Women master (in spades!) Turn it off, turn it on!
Each man born plays a part,
Drones raised crippled in heart!
The ‘fair sex’ is a poem perceived in a glance
And its victims in life rarely get 'second' chance.
It seems few men alive, dare to peer through Love’s veil,
Though they’ve lives of a king,
They don’t know anything!
(3)Most women who dream, dream of not being blue,
Not of love from a man! Where’s your freedom in pact,
That imprisons your soul? Spend your life as the pawn
To a bully’s largess?
You might have to confess
That your love’s not just hiding, you’re empty inside
A ‘full house’ bluff advanced by a girl with no pride!
One who spends life on prose may not get the best mail!
Though the diamonds may shine,
Some men douse her with wine!??
(1)“I know what I want, and I want it today,”?
(4)Was the song of her youth that I still hear her sing.
Now she lives on a budget her husband doles out!
Does he value her soul?
Was just leisure her goal?
While he drives a Ferrari, her mom needs food stamps
To survive on a pittance! New stereo amps
Grace the sparkling home theater kids dare not touch!
Husband kind to a fault -
(Kids want candy or malt!)
(5)As a man, I feel lucky (most days) I can say
And I count her my friend (but did not buy a ring,)
Expectations, not ending things more in a rout!
Both got something desired
When love’s dream was retired!
I do wonder at times, does she feel like she’s won?
I do hope that she does, that her husband’s someone
She’d choose over again,
That all joy’s not just spin!
Brian Johnston
21st of April 2019
Poet’s Notes:
1. Her words:
2. What I feared she was thinking:
3. More of my fears:
4. What I think I know about her life:??
5. Where things are for me today:
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