UNWILLINGNESS  (May 3, 2006)

 

Women are said to be better in waiting

Than most men; across the centuries

They had stayed at home, while in ventures

Men went out, sometimes returning

 

With hands full of gold for them to wed,

Or coming back penniless to beg

For some tenderness and love to drag

Them out of defeat, heartbroken and sad.

 

Or never to return and all the time spent

In lonely waiting led to nothing but woe:

For this too women are ready to expect...

 

But it is hard to wait, so many years I lent

To that expectation; then you come and go

And my heart gets broken and anxious to connect.