Saturday, September 16, 2023

Love Hurts

Her's was a story so often told

Of hopelessly hopeful futility.

Blinded by love she did not foresee

That he would be gone before

Springtime was done.

Men are such animals,

Grunting and rutting,

Breaking the rules of polite company

Until all that is left

Is the cheap pick-up line

That lingers in anguish

Long after he's gone.

 

No moral dilemmas,

No great philosophical edicts

Are written to which he adheres.

No conscience to bother,

No groundswell of feeling

Comes rushing to make an emotional plea.

Only the bodies he leaves in his wake

To languish and drown in an ocean of tears -

Waiting for someone to throw her a lifeline -

As he sails the trade winds of tropical seas.

 

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