How can one be unkind to one’s one wife, <br />The better-half who shares his joys and grief? <br />The woman ’hind the success in his life, <br />Who serves him lovingly though life is brief? <br /> <br />The share of toil she renders is far great; <br />From child rearing to cooking, loving chores; <br />She dons the family’s problems as her fate; <br />Her life gets spent like house-arrest ’hind doors. <br /> <br />How can a man to wife be ungrateful? <br />His wife’s a shadow of his own image! <br />No husband good can be to her hateful; <br />In both his eyes remains his wife’s visage! <br /> <br />How then can man be unkind to his wife? <br />The better shouldn’t be kept bitter all life.<br /><br />Dr John Celes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-a-man-s-life-is-his-wife/
