Mimi - Mona Poetry: Tell Her Adieu

©Tell Her Adieu

Her failings shattered, became exposed;

she couldn’t prevent what you disclosed.

You ignored her as you ignored your own

beating heart, spurred on by testosterone.

You had her trust not to starve her

of your self, not to openly ignore her

as one of the walking dead. Did you tell

everyone the two of you split? Well?

Is that your reason to lock her in your hell,

in some cyberfile away from prying eyes

to be opened only when you can circumcise

her from her love and enjoy her privately?

She is a lovely, kind, thoughtful, unmanned,

and intelligent woman, and I cannot stand

the way she is being hurt by you;

time for you to tell her adieu.

She was drunk and crying; she could not

be anything but honest; that’s not tommyrot.

The look in her eyes was like the look

of someone when they first awaken...shook

because the surroundings are unfamiliar;

where everything seems to be a blur.

You fell in love with her honest moments.

Now you love unmade beds with a reverence

as you immigrate from one liminal space

to the next, from one Jezebel to the next scapegrace.

Mimi Wolske

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