Katharine's Wheel

Katharine’s Wheel ( September 1996 ) No one should be asked To sit next to your lover Or have to hear How he longed to touch her No one should be asked To bare betrayal With a smile And be the calm within the rages Of those destroyed embraces No one should have to suffer Such loss Or be emptied In the puddles of your pride No one deserves To be taunted so To be left devastated By their loves Cold and cruel Heartless you Implacable you wasted All those sacrificial kisses Expecting even more Acceptance of mocking frigidity Ever unexpressed sham of sexuality No man should find himself Still waiting by your side While dieing in the tears Behind a mask of pain And be full of gentle smiles Ripped without a sound So you wouldn’t hear the sobbing That let you stay sleeping In the torture of the night No one should be so disrespected Made to feel so worthless “If you were successful I would love you” She said “I want more than just your love” No one should be so discarded Left alone with their broken leg While you ride the new black car Of your own ego’s self centred worship Belittled in your familiar judgement Your families’ contrivance of easy labels No one expects to be so shattered By someone they have loved Or merits such a breaking In the way you broke me Destroying me in the brow beating Echoes of your family Simply walked away And left me No one is worthy Of that