A cold, hard, critical look -
then calculating my feelings
and in what exact quantity
to reveal them.
Certain eyes are human
and cold,
even dead
like cut glass.
The woman stays housebound
with duty
and the expectation
of tradition
being fulfilled.
The man is all but an act
of grace,
a gift,
a favour
huge
like a plastic bag
to stuff your love in.
Spinsters must have figured
this out early on.
Single girls
need to follow suit,
looking ahead towards
cold, hard winters
of peace and solitude.
November, 2013
then calculating my feelings
and in what exact quantity
to reveal them.
Certain eyes are human
and cold,
even dead
like cut glass.
The woman stays housebound
with duty
and the expectation
of tradition
being fulfilled.
The man is all but an act
of grace,
a gift,
a favour
huge
like a plastic bag
to stuff your love in.
Spinsters must have figured
this out early on.
Single girls
need to follow suit,
looking ahead towards
cold, hard winters
of peace and solitude.
November, 2013
Abritti,
ReplyDeleteVery evocative, but this sounds harsh. The divide between men and women does not rest on the aspect of being married or not. There are so many more facets to existence and identity than just conforming to being spinsters, or married. In today's liberated times traditional expectations are abstract and redundant.