Thursday, July 18, 2024

Who uses whom? January 25, 2014

 

Does she use us or do we use her

 in this messy mishap

we mistake for Love

or lost or both

 she has spent her life trickling up

like a salmon jumping up waterfalls

 to get to that place where they spawn

 she acts as if she controls it all

even us when we --

 this collection of people who should

 know better as peers or bosses or even lovers

 making use of her and then blaming her for using us

it's no wonder she wakes with a monkey brain

each pre-dawn, confused by it all

not getting what she thinks she deserves

in exchange for what she puts out

a repeated pattern repeated even now

in a place where she ought to believe

she has made it

 used and misused by who knows who

 like a sangria made with sour fruit

we all drink, get drunk on

 feel bitter about when we ought

 to be appreciate what she has given us

 and how we ought to have given back

anything she wants and needs

the perfect trade off

 it's only fair


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