Your wife’s not in a tomb
Where dressed in someone’s gown
Is your bride from heaven's womb
And no less than renowned.
She’s not a purchased product
Your paying stub redeems
Since most years she surrendered
Herself, her time, her dreams.
Her smile is such an asset
Commodity forclosed
For in it is the upset
She indirectly chose.
So what’s too hard- apology?
Though better, it can please
When death brings to catastrophy
More certainly, your knees.
Author notes
Endopathy is a structured process of healing created by Myra Lochner http://allpoetry.com/poem/4367674 and supported by Frans Bezuidenhout http://allpoetry.com/FransB. It has also produced a book that can
be purchased by anyone from the AllPoetry community.http://allpoetry.com/poem/4339971
Inspired by the classics, especially Emily Dickinson.
Comments
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E.Dickinson's influence can be heard in this finely scripted piece. And its message lends common sense attributes as well.
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I had to comment
on this beautiful, straight to the face, poem. It leaves me uncomfortable - loving so easily interpreted as "I" with insensitive egoistic overtures. It leaves me angered - he that equates 'wife' with an electrical switch. It leaves me touched - the forewarning of death's finality. But then, you either love her or abuse her, a pity many only know 'use' her. A poem that will scratch the surface - clean, but only when 'forgiveness' is sought, not an 'apology', but when 'loss and gain' or even 'gain' and 'loss' becomes a reality in one's life - the life of men, who once said 'why they love', and forgot its meaning along the way! Thanks for the opportunity to vent my feelings. God bless. Frans
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