Thursday, January 9, 2020

The Mistress Gets Everything

we use the word so carelessly.
love.
I love you the boy says
to the girl.

but does he mean it.
or does he just want to make
to love
her.

does the bouquet of flowers,
the card,
the poem,
the heart carved in a tree
say more?

perhaps. or maybe it's done
out of fear, out of having
no self
love,

from some deep parental lack.
hoping to not lose
their prey,
they try harder.

it's why the man gives so much
time and affection
to the mistress
while the wife at home,

gets less, crumbs, if anything
at all.

she's already taken,
her life is just another day.

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