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Women teach men how to be easy
Men teach women how to be tough
But in reality
Men have always been easy
And women have always been tough
We just needed eachother to find our self
By: Roger Harkness
A picture falls
He knows he can’t catch it
Trying to warn her
But she has no clue
It’s another bump on the head
Broken glass
He knows things are gonna change
And he can’t change it
He can’t catch it
But one can’t help wondering
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After my wife left me, an older married woman had latched onto me when I became a truck driver. Her husband was dieing and wanted her to be happy so he encouraged it.
The deal was, we were just supposed to have an affair. Some time into the affair when I got home off the road she had decided to move in. Then she decided to starte to make rules and tell me I couldn’t see other women and I told her to leave but she backed down and we agreed that we were not eachothers property.
This went on for about five years. It came to a point (mostly because of her daughter) that she could not support herself, so I shared as I always do. She began to think we were husband and wife and I began to look for an escape.
I fell in love with another woman at work and at the same time her husband had died. With the insurance money she no longer needed my financial support to live on her own so I informed her I was in love with another women and left - trust me, it wasn’t that easy. I felt very guilty about it and still do and hope that everything is ok for her. I’ve written several poems for her.
I must honesly admit, though she trapped me and held for as long as she could, she was very good to me. She was spoiling me bad. She would clean, cook and do dishes, make me coffee and never complain, her only requirement was that I make her tea, and I did, faithfully, everyday, except for that day when a picture fell off the wall and hit her in the head, I tried to warn her but it was too late.
Her husband who had bought her a brand new car would always wash it for her.
The other women I had fallen in love with, she turned out to be bipolar and would not seek help and that is hell. She would love you one day and hate you the next. Her love was more powerful than I have ever knew while her anger was unwarranted. You’d be lifted up to be let down and crushed and that’s another story and I’ve written poems about that as well.
We push those who love us away and become angry with them when they turn to some one else to share emotions with as if their emotions belong to only us. WHAT MAKES US THINK WE HAVE THE RIGHT.
What has always bothered me was that jealousy is accepted as a normal emotion. It is even taught that if one does not become jealous then they aren’t in love.
True story: Back when I was in elementary school (during the 4th and fifth grade) I had a girl friend named Cheryl. I told her that she could have other boyfriends if she wanted to, it was ok with me, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, we should all be able to love each other. So she decided that I didn’t really love her, I was just saying that, because I wouldn’t be jealous if she had other boyfriends, so to get back at me she played a trick on me. She covered my eyes with her hands, said she had something to show me, walked me over to a sticker bush, told me to open my eyes and then pushed me into the sticker bush. My mother had to pull out the stickers with a pair of tweezers, both her and my older sister told me to brake up with her. But I didn’t, she apologized to me and I accepted it. She finally broke up with me and Debbie her friend brought me back the ring and said, “did you know she was seeing other boys.”
I won’t tell you that I am above any such emotion, it happens, I realize it and deal with it, just like anger or hatred. But jealousy is a little different you see, when you become jealous, nobody will tell you that you are wrong and they will always agree that the other person is either a jerk or a bitch.
Like I told a Lieutenant I worked for in the Navy, for some reason we mistaken mental sickness as love when we believe that a person has a right to be jealous because they love someone. If you love someone you will want them to be happy, even if that happiness comes from someone else. Love is not selfish. Somehow we have ownership and love mixed up with each other. You see a beautiful bird and you say I love that bird, so you capture it and put it in a cage. Do you really love it or do you just want to have it, there is a difference and the two are not the same. We will see a beautiful guy or gal and say we want them and we go about capturing them and the real prize is marriage, that’s when they are really ours, until the divorce that is.
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LADY, LADY DAY
Mega winds blow
As I look
And know
I can’t have you
Lady
Lady Day
Your a special breed
One of a different seed
You smile more then a person should
You talk bad
But you’re good
Never get excited Never get upset
You know where your at
Yes, Lady
Lady Day
Knowone will have you
Because you have yourself
Mega winds blow
I know I have to leave you
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Written for an air traffic controller in Antarctica in 1987.
