Woman, oh Woman, <br />Why do you try me, <br />Why do you shake me, <br />Break me <br />Deny me <br />When all that you do <br />Is deride and defy me? <br /> <br />Once we were young <br />And you painted your faces, <br />Pierced your tongues <br />And silk-stockinged your traces; <br />Wafted the scent of despair <br />And seduction, <br />Coloured your lips with <br />A hint of corruption, <br />Taunted and teased with your hips <br />As they swayed it, <br />Aimed at my reason; <br />Dismayed and waylaid it. <br /> <br />I was bemused <br />By your willful distraction, <br />Caught in your spell <br />And the well of attraction, <br />Courted and charmed <br />As you played 'hard to get me', <br />Turned my face from you <br />As much as you'd let me, <br />Filled you with praises <br />Then watched you cuckold me, <br />Took to another <br />So she could just hold me. <br /> <br />Year followed year <br />And your scent, it still lingers, <br />Once I stood tall and strong, <br />Now I'm all fingers, <br />Love came and went until <br />I was but sated, <br />Everything failed <br />Then you came to me, naked, <br />Now in the twilight <br />We look on and wonder <br />Where are the ties that bind? <br />All torn asunder! <br /> <br />Woman, oh Woman, <br />Why do you sigh me, <br />Why do you shake me <br />Break me <br />And cry me <br />When all that you want is <br />To lie here beside me? <br /> <br />30 March 2008<br /><br />David Lewis Paget<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/woman-52/
