my husband has not yet appeared....

ISN
ISN Posts: 1,700
edited December 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
I don't want to get involved
what happens is
I see things one way
and he sees them another
he is crazy about me at first
and then he gets used to me
he loves my little quirks
and then he finds them annoying
I notice things about him
which didn't bother me before
he's not as clever or as cute
as I thought he was
we get familiar
he fights with me
because he's unhappy
he adored me
and I wonder why no more
I get bored
I want different types
closer to God and me
and I want to be free
free of him and of everyone
I want to look at flowers slowly
and watch rain fall on my own
read books and laugh to myself
he gets in the way
his weekly pay is my housekeeping
I'm tired of his nonchalance
when first I knew him he would jump
and laugh and smile
and know all the while he frowns
I want the kind of husband
that hasn't been invented yet.....
he would have anyone
I want a man whose intelligence reaches the stars
whose eyes are jumping with life
and who loves me
but they don't....they say they do
for a minute or two
and then they go all weird
my husband has not yet appeared....
isn't that weird....
....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    How would the poem be different if the main character just focused on the main character?
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    still leaking faucet
    reminder to fix
    many things
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • tsopotelba
    tsopotelba Posts: 80
    I like the poem, ISN.
  • ISN
    ISN Posts: 1,700
    thx....honesty must be very irritating judging by teh other replies....I appear to be alienating teh members.....gee.....that sux
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    not at all. i think you are merely discussing an uncomfortable issue...something many may not have ever experienced, or don't want to think marriage could ever be like that. i liked it - it sounds *real* to me - and i am married 12 years. :p
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me

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