~* A Tangle Of Jealousy *~

In a tangle of jealousy you held me,
too close believing I was part of you,
so close that you couldn't see me.
Did you not see that in the strong-hold,
and tangled obsession of your needy arms,
you drowned my spirit and soul,
in the waves of untrust in that capture?

Your fear of amputation of my love,
made for the heavy bricks of obligation,
with which we built our stronghold on,
this we strangely called fidelity.
We built a deep moat, closing the drawbridge,
and you kept me tethered inside,
with an umbilical cord never to be cut.

I smile now as I remember you suffering,
while all the while I festered
in your cold womb; poisoning you,
with the oozing toxins of impossible grief
How did I keep them concealed,
beneath the stretched and smiling skin
Of that sickening commanded love.

Did you not feel me writhing inside you
struggling to get out?
You resisted parturition for so long,
and my birth, after such a long,painful labour
has left us both worn out my dear,
and you are without me now, childless.

Now free from your confinement
I feel like a motherless child.
Do you even recognize me with a smile?
Do you now even begin to understand,
what was a cry of hunger?
Listen for the empty spaces,
between my sentences, and hear me.
All I wanted was the very things you craved,
Love, trust, freedom but I needed more,
I needed to feel like a woman!



art: www.wtv-zone.com/sultryrose
midi: "I Feel Like A Woman" - Shania Twian (had to throw that in, she is Canadian, eh?)

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[This message has been edited by Irish Rose (edited 08-23-2001).]

~*If you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all*~ hmmm...they were smart whomever said that!