Mother, wife
Just told to get a life
By the very person she holds high.
23 years of commitment
Boiling down to feeling cheated...controlled...smothered.
Shamed, blamed
For desiring intimacy with her one and only.
Feelings of repulsion, rejection
Over giving my love completely.
Cast aside, laughed at, torn down.
Betrayed by the one she gave her heart to oh so many years ago.
I feel a slow death creeping in where once I believed there to be love.
Pity, obligation, resentment.
I will never forget,
The words said in hate.
Replaying in my head,
Make it stop.
They linger longer than any bruise.