Have you ever been a piece of ass? <br />Eyes, hands, tongues wanting to experience your house of flesh <br />Pushing so hard on the outside <br />That it bruised your soul inside? <br />Did it teach you to make thicker walls? <br />People called you fat. <br /> <br />I am asking, have you? <br /> <br />Have you ever been so starving poor <br />Working 4 jobs just to hang to the side of the lifeboat <br />Caught the eye of a rich man <br />With pockets full of possessions but vacant everywhere else <br />Offering you his world of stipulations <br />Have you ever turned that down? <br />People called you a fool. <br /> <br />I am asking, have you? <br /> <br />Have you had a man give up loving you <br />Not because he didn’t love you but because he didn’t know how? <br />In that moment did you find yourself or lose yourself? <br />What didn’t kill you did it make you stronger? <br />Resent it because strength wasn’t what you needed <br />You needed what had been killed. <br />People called you unreasonable to expect more. <br /> <br />I am asking, have you? <br /> <br />Have your painted lips ever held their tongue <br />Have you smiled when your heartbreaker said hello <br />Looked down from the high road to those on their high horse <br />Thinking American girls have their form of Geisha too. <br />We smile pretty into lusting eyes and rusty desires <br />While listening to a broken record of what is required <br />For people to call you a cultivated lady of strength. <br /> <br />I am asking because I have.<br /><br />Wanda Swim Strunk<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/american-geisha/
