the lover is the backbone of his mistress <br />he is her hopes, her dreams, her fantasies. <br /> <br />he keeps her on a string, but to him she is everything. <br />through her he sees all his failures and mistakes <br />whereas he sits and contemplates. <br /> <br />she in turn looks to him for strength <br />and guideness in her hours of despair. <br />and knows when she needs him <br />he'll always be near. <br /> <br />she lives in her realm of fantasies <br />and depends upon him for his 'realities' <br />she is what she wants to be <br />living in hpocrisy.<br /><br />louis rams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mistress-answer-1978/