FEMINISM DISTANCED

A man and woman

will distance themselves.

A competitive beat

to become equal had it moving costs

so that

what once fit in one room no longer fits.

Budgetary constraints

financial agreements and perplexing puzzles

never really informed Joe

how to be the best of himself.

The brutality

of feminism cut his throat

and he was left

for dead until someone found him.

Dragging him from a bloody pool

a woman

brought him into her home on the hill.

Mending

his wounds and feeding him

he came

to a full recovery and he was blessed.

He was

puzzled to understand why

and she

answered him by saying she was a nurse.

She has

an affection for the ill

and possessed

a saving grace demeanor when talking.

She asked

if a woman cut him down, and

he told her

that he indeed could not

relate to her needs

and she

asked him to leave their home.

She recognized

that they had distanced themselves.

We give of ourselves

until we cannot give anymore

or we feel used.

He could not be a woman

and she could not be a man

though they thought they easily could.

In the end she knitted socks

while he

loaded a gun and chased a wild boar.

One day

she said she ‘woke up’

and said

she really didn’t need him anymore.

Say what?

She just didn’t love him anymore …