Trophy Wife
My poem for Randy Baker's Prompted #1 Challenge
This poem is for Randy Baker's Challenge which you can read about here:
Words that need to be included for the challenge to be met (6 of these only but can be 7):
Whisper
Serenade
Cascade
Velvet
Ethereal
Enigma
Labyrinth
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You say, "I've placed you on a plinth";
A pedestal I don't deserve.
I'm lost in a labyrinth
Of the feelings you reserve
Just for me.
You say.
But I am not so sure.
I'm not Venus,
(Just a girl)
But I am fly-trapped.
*
You whisper to me sweetness
That I can barely taste;
A serenade of saccharine,
Sugar syrupy cascade.
I want to believe the velvet
That ripples from your mouth
But I don't know the code:
I need Enigma to work you out.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I want to believe.
*
I want to be a woman,
A partner and a wife.
I'm not a muse, a plan,
A stimulation device.
I'm real! Feel me!
Solid, true and present.
Not a concept, an ethereal being
But me.
See me, love me,
Delight in me.
Not what you think I am
To you.
***
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And thanks Randy for an awesome challenge!
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Comments (8)
Your final lines toe this piece together so wonderfully. This is so smooth and delicate. Seriously Well done
"I'm lost in a labrynith of the feelings you reserve" I love this line so much. So powerful and angsty
Sadly, this happens wayyyyy too often. Loved your poem so much!
An object in our lives or a relationship? It's distressing to realize how many settle for the former when what we both want & need is the latter.
Oh, I felt this!! We should never be abased by another!
Oh, I really like this one. See me, love me, Delight in me. Not what you think I am To you." Such a perfect ending, and sums up so many relationships.
Many relationships fail because of expectations. One should be allowed to be the natural them. Yet we all have those expectations. It takes a lot of patience and understanding of each others feelings to make it work. Conversating the feelings hopefully is the key.
This is an exceptional poem, Rachel! Rich in meaning and feeling. I love how the speaker demands the raising of the relational bar between a man and a woman beyond the stereotypical male determination to pleasure himself. ‘See me, love me, delight in me.’ Powerful stuff!