As a kid, you must have imagined what it was like to be an adult. Now that you’re a grownup (or becoming one), how far off was your idea of adult life?
I’m at the same age as the women I used to see,
primping themselves pretty,
working out at the gym,
looking more beautiful than the women they replaced –
still bound to their men, like a phantom limb.
They had their own children,
who learned to live with their lies
seeing a man not their daddy flit through their lives
going to school with the true ones, the ones who bore his name
but they learned to live with it, and why not?
it was only shame.
You do such an elegant job of covering tough subjects. It captures that bittersweet reality of the human story and I can’t look away.
I think women over the period of time, have grown more virtuous than shallow. The women around me are no longer dependent in any man and are self content and reliable. They have their own world of beauty and that will remain same but in terms of equality, I guess the life is more meaningful 🙂 Thanks for sharing your expression, it is gentle and pure!
Thank you 🙂