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
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2009
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