Best Other Woman Poems
While your hands caress my body, is it her face that you see?
Is your thunder of release now brought on by HER memory?
Am I just a luscious body that contains HER living soul?
Just an instrument of passion where your craving are made whole?
Life has played a dirty trick, though, for our story’s gone and changed
Sentiments which were so true then, all have now become deranged
I am left to grieve and wonder how she came to steal your heart
Was my love not good enough, then? Did she fill some hidden part?
Did a fantasy not flourish, was some longing left unknown?
Tell my heart what made you love her, why your heart for me is stone?
Here you lie in pleasure’s arms, yet every thought is there instead
Naked, grieved, I’m left to wonder what it feels like to be dead
Eileen Manassian
I grieve the woman that I used to be
The one who did not know duplicity
Who thought that friends would have a constancy
I grieve the other woman that was me
I grieve the woman that I used to be
The one who looked at life with childlike glee
Whose heart of love made her a devotee
I grieve the other woman that was me
I grieve the woman that I used to be
Who thought her claim to fame was poetry
Who met each morning with expectancy
I grieve the other woman that was me
I grieve the woman that I used to be
Who thought that justice meant democracy
Who spoke for women's rights with fervancy
I grieve the other woman that was me
I grieve the woman that I used to be
Who saw a rosy hued reality
Who gave romantic love supremacy
I grieve the other woman that was me
I grieve the woman that I used to be
Who spoke her truth with proud audacity
Who trusted people's common decency
I grieve the other woman that was me
I grieve the woman that I used to be
Who would not tolerate complacency
Who thought a dream deferred was lunacy
I grieve the woman that I used to be
Alas, that other woman is not free
The world has chained her, crushed her vibrancy
Her words no longer carry potency
She's almost dead, that woman that was me.
Eileen Manassian
August 28, 2025
I am made to feel alone in a battle where there is no room
My thoughts are not heard my tears shall not fall around your eyes
I lock away the pain you gave with the unknowing statement
I feel like I am now the other woman not the partner I came to be
A tension that has been discovered within this moment
I see a doubt of my place within the most adoring partnership
Am I to lay down and hide like I do not breathe
Will my tears dissappear in the morning breeze
Shall my fears be washed away by the crystal of waves that crash
I am here but I am like a secret journal that must be locked
You say nothing changes but you do not hear my silence
That should of haunted your hearts inner thought
I do not matter as my feelings are rocked
She plays a game that you do not see the abuse
Her weapon is children as swords they fall into your heart
They are driven straight to you where you now do not stand tall
She says you are not a man and this is her goal to bring you down
You do not see how the mind of the last now brings
She plays her role with determination that grows
Her making is your braking
She does not crown you but only drowns you
You feel out of control and turn to me
But you do not see what you are doing to me
You hear no words that I speak my heart is now at your feet
As I am made to be the other woman in all defeat
Not as your partner to rule lifes rule I feel disguarded
Not the woman you made the dreams to be .....
Now I am just the other woman ....
I am the other woman!
I am the other woman!
What woman am I?
Does she look like me?
I smile, laugh and get things done
I am the other one.
He asked me to leave for her
She wants what I want,
But he doesn't notice
He tells everyone how he can't go on
With me being the one,
So I look outside to find my pride
And I notice a man sitting on a porch
And he says to me,
Hi, are you in a hurry
No, I reply and then with a sigh,
I ask why,
Because I'm looking for a mate to whom I can relate
And I stare back at him,
Did he just hear me leave?
The wind blew through the trees
And I realized why I am worried,
About what he just asked,
To make room for her
When I know from all my studying and all my experience
That all I have to do is stand,
Because I am the other Woman!
not the other woman
I do not want to be
a one night stand,
smoke before the fire-
something on the side-
the other woman.
The other woman-
has time to waste.
The secret rendezvous,
motel rooms, small
gifts. A little of
your time, just
is not enough to build
a life on.
So, I'll spare myself the pain,
hurt, and always wanting that
which is not mine.
I will not be the other woman,
I will not waste my time.
dear mother in law
you should have been beheaded
King Henry has failed
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come, speak to my heart
say: "we will not depArt"
you are only mine
and i am ONLY yours
perceive any other woman
they maybe prettier
yes, they maybe richer
even exudes sexier
the hell, i mind
as i know im not behind
as in to your eyes
as cold as eyes, unto heights
i am the only one
as i'm no other woman
possessing, keeping you
denying you all from blues
life takes its toll on me
I seek what I can’t reach
I lose myself in sleep
the day gives me no peace
lie down here next to me
I require special skills
he slips under the sheets
forever summer sweet
I surface for fresh air
to late the ground is white
the stag makes his retreat
love slides into the sheath
I'm in your husbands dreams at night more than you'll ever know.With each passing day the need for me will surely grow. I steal from you i steal from him. I am like a thief in the night. The need for me will never cease because i have gripped him and held on tight.
He'll never stop i've got a hold on him until his dying breath, allow me to introduce myself, first name crystal last name meth.
I can't help but take what doesn't belong
Always it follows, temptation's song
Never for love, only the thrill
Keep my world in motion, prevent the still
Picket fences were never for me
Entanglement in others I can only see
Every sweet moment we must truly embrace
At least, that's what I tell my mirroring face
My muddied, motherly eyes I turned away
When he looked at her in that lustful way
Drowning my voice as my tongue I silenced
She was my shield against his violence
I had so devalued her existence
That from me he got no resistance
When on her tight lips his kisses landed
To her, the fault I scornfully handed
When timidly upon his lap she sat
I knew his manhood was eager to chat
I saw the smutty sneaky little snake
Her innocence he was ready to take
When I chose to ignore his ********
I packed away parental protection
She was the prey I threw into his cage
She could absorb his penetrating rage
I knew fear was his aphrodisiac
With her tears she begged for him to attack
Excited, his entrance was really vicious
To him, her agony was delicious
He filled her with soul stealing suffocating shame
The devil’s spawn, she was the one I blamed
When he drifted, he slithered into her bed
Dreaming of the day, when she would drop dead
She was the other woman, my rival
I had no regard for her survival
When his heavy fist fractured her fresh face,
I was glad she was there to take my place
Into her spirit I twisted the knife
Taking from her everything but her life
In his wrath I left her alone to drown
Abdicating my maternal crown
What forbidden fruits I vie
Offered on a golden thigh,
Calves and sculptured feet
More gentle, more smooth and firm.
A fleeting smile and glance
Softer words and fuller lips
Brighter eyes and giving touch,
A ready ripefullness to merge,
And come together,
Is not for us.
She stood apart at the other end of the room defiant, alone and resolute. No matter what they thought she would not let them define her. She felt the air heavy with avoidance, not that it really mattered to her any longer.
She was always going to be the other women, nothing could change this fact. Falling in love always looked better in the light of day; dreams become stand-in replacements for what could not change. Time seemed to stand on its edge, frozen in-place.
She had come to the realization that being in love was a funny exercise in polite manners and saying all the right words, as she sipped her wine, trying to avoid eye contact. She never expected anything less than what was being offered up.
There was the precise moment when she knew the price to be paid and the toll extracted for falling in love with the wrong person. Revenge and justice didn’t always end up being equal as she heard the murmur from the small talk drifting her way.
Let them believe what they want; she really didn’t care. She was here and nothing else mattered as she moved towards the center of the room and the crowd parted for her like Moses trying to enter the Holy Land.
The other woman.
Sharon Maria Moemise
'cos I make you king on your mattress throne
Or that I just make pillow talk interesting
Is it cos I worship the ground you walk on
Or that my loving is hotter than her nagging?
You leave my bed cold yet satisfied
to crawl next to her in the deep of the night
Your dreams are of me in my naked seduction
while a peck on her cheek makes everything else right
I'm the other woman, here to make you forget
for only a moment where your heart should be
With my womanly wiles and perfumed assets
I entrap you in a world where there's only me
Allowing you to to own my soul for a moment
Letting you exploit my body to your desires
Whispers of endearment in my ears you fill
I'm the other woman, stoking up your hidden fires
Being the other woman, showered with glamour
Gifts in abundance, and the best of his passion
It's still a lonely business, being the one on the side
A passing phase, at times, a deadly, sinful attraction.
I am the Other Woman
Savannah Baer
In the quiet moments, I catch his gaze
Not on me but on another face
I see his smile, a longing look
In this moment my whole world shook
He looks at her eyes that shine
A longing there that once was mine
But when he turns to meet my stare
It is a friend’s warmth not a lover’s care
I feel like the other woman now
A place I never knew somehow
In his heart I thought I would stay
But I am just his friend at the end of the day
I wonder when his shift began
When I lost the old romantic man
How did I not see the love fade away
Or did I just hope it would always stay
I wear the ring, I share his name
But in my eyes it’s not the same
Unfulfilled I stand by his side
Not only a friend, but a faithful bride
But in my heart I crave to be
A woman he wanted to love fiercely