Category: A Woman’s Plight

Two can play at it
But I don’t want to

Trying to build a home on scaffolding
Puts too much pressure on the beams

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(Title of multiple meanings)

She’d liked keeping up with his trends
They gave her chances to explore flex

But he’d resented her mirroring
As he strove for his own identity

He’d liked parts
But not all of her

There were no second chances
Or room for evolution dynamics

She’d learned to fear…

She wondered if he’d felt inadequate
Because she was built for capacities

I’ve observed resentment grow
When as a couple shared space

The moment two became one
Identities were shed to censure

Is a solution to have own rooms
Taking turns where share desires

As interfacing finds its
Compliment organically?

My limbs hurt so bad
In any position that I

Doubt the possibility of
Ever sharing a bed again

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(Title of multiple meanings)

“I won’t put you through that again,” as he took her hand and gave her full eye contact in his sincerity.

“I promise to keep growing and comprehend…

You’ll never have to be alone, agaun.”

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(Title of multiple meanings)

She had needed to be sure

She was not just going to
Have a hot tryst with him

No matter who he was
And regardless of how

Important he was to her

“How could he be there for everyone else, but not for me?

I don’t even really need to care, anymore.

I just don’t understand why I was branded negatable.

And maybe, it is better if I just avoid that whole thing.”

Although she could see the problem, felt his need, and would give everything most gladly – he was going to have to be the one to bridge for them.

The lock must be unlocked for the game’s rewards to begin.

“Love is always easy.”

He wanted her to call him a coward
He wanted her to lash out with rage

It was the pattern he recognized
But she would hold it close inside

No…

He couldn’t have her heat
Unless it was reciprocated

Somewhere between not ready enough
And exhausted patience resides balance

“You don’t get all of me for nothing.”

As a moment trapped
Still reaches for linking

She could not stop
Possibility thinking

A very young man’s father
Ignored his good mother

Thus the young man’s pattern
Ignored his own wife’s needing

His best friend suddenly dumped
His own fiance for another woman

Then years way down the line he just
Dropped the woman in same manner

After projecting issues with mother
Onto her without clarifying desires

A different younger man struggled
Against being controlled by mother

Allowing this relationship tangle
To distort engaged commitment

Her own father abandonded her as child
Teaching love was only valued from afar

But then she met a man who fought hard
To keep his valued lover despite anything

Well yeah – she’d choose his mirroring like
Her own against-odds dedication – any day