The glue drips and sticks to your hands
messy messy
I neatly fold my legs
I wait and wait
watching the glue dry
joining the tiny imprinted hearts with your canvas
tiny plump specks young and perfect
spattered against your walls
you wash the mess from your hands
I wait, eyes steady
watching the paper hearts shrink and harden
I pulse and panic
and unable to restrain my passion
I tear through the paper
ripping through the pink splotches piece by piece
stripping your valentine from the walls of this house.
I take the strange dots into my mouth
and I grind, and chew, and swallow
taking back my heart into my own body
leaving blank and bare the room
which was once ours
Today I read an Article about married couples who engage in open monogamous relationships. They are not swingers per se, but every once in a while they will hook up with with some one on a business trip, or a vacation with the acknowledgement of the other partner. What I have to say about that is how does jealousy not work its way into the situation? Even with open relationships with people who are unmarried, the variable of another partner brings mixed feelings into the equation of any relationship, unbiased to the status of such relationship. Even in the article the writer acknowledged the fact that her own tryst outside of her marriage did not end well, yet the conclusion of the article was in favor of couples experimenting with this open monogamy.
Please some one get me a bear tranquilizer because right now I am myself feeling these said pangs of jealousy. It is unfair to either side of the relationship to be involved in anyone else other than the person you are "with".
but it seems to be more acceptable for men, than women to have these outside interests and sexual endeavors, why are we so quick to forgive? Is it that we as females are naturally wired to be more committed or faithful these male "counterparts". In the article it stated that we as a human species are meant to have more than one partner throughout our lifetime. It states that it goes against our nature to have one life long partner, our ancestors for instance shared food and shared sex. Have we contradicted our very nature by adhering to these structures of devotion within our relationships?
