Tuesday, June 25, 2024

More than a Cinderella man Sept. 16, 2013

She’s got the bug for him

the way we had for her.

I say had

a man can’t keep longing

for the impossible

 without going nuts,

life needs to go on,

as U2 put it,

“with or without her.”

A lesson she may need

to learn the hard way.

Even a goddess

doesn’t always get

 what she wants

 or needs or thinks

she deserves,

She must eventually

 settle for something

 or someone she can live with.

A broken heart may still beat,

 yet if you don’t stich it back together,

 each beat brings

only pain and misery,

the goal of love it to find bliss,

to find someone who will

be there in the morning

 after spending the night,

rather than the Cinderella man,

who must flee her bed by midnight

 before his whole life turns

into the pumpkin patch

he carved this love affair from,

 a jack-o-lantern more frightening than sad.

 


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