Her curves
Could not cover up her scars
When I met her
Her gait had a bounce
Like Tigger the tiger
Yet I looked beyond that
And that was that
Like a car on dangerous curves
Careening into a streak of tiger’s
Three years of scars
And I couldn’t bounce
I thought I loved her
She had a way about her
Controlling ?, yeah, that !
My love and lust just bounced
Off her invisible shield, the curve
Ball here was that her scars
Were self inflicted by claws of the tiger
Tigger the tiger
Is what I called her
Damaging scars
She inflicted that
Lines crossed, constant curves
And yet, I never bounced…
Why couldn’t I bounce ?
i was a sacrificial gazelle to her tiger
Entranced by her curves ?
What was it about her ?
Not the curves, it wasn’t that
It was our mutual scars
Those damning dark scars
Felt with your head in white wall rubber room bounce
At the time I just couldn’t or wouldn’t or refused to accept that
I was a pussy to your ferocious tiger
Three miserable years with her
Full of mind numbing tortured balls thrown with a curve
Too many scars to block out the god damn tiger
So glad I bounced on August 11, 1991 and finally left her.
30 years later, well that’s that. This pussy cat is far more content with his wife’s curves.
A Prolific Potpourri... 
Trauma bonds can be hard to break.
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Yeah took about a decade to get over JoAnn Rodriguez, I compared almost every girlfriend after her. Weirdly she had a lot of emotional issues juxtaposed to my wife of the same caliber..the difference..my wife is a decent human being.
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…a HUGE difference.
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Absolutely, my wife never tried to run me over with her car either…
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🥺
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Yeah, it was a pretty messed up three years.
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It sounds like the worst.
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That’s kind of a deal breaker!
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And yet I stayed in that psycho relationship for three years !
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Sounds like that pussy cat made the right choice 👍🖤
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Yuppers 😸
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😁🖤
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Life get complicated.
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I like your sestina, Matt! Did you enjoy writing it? I did…for me, it was sort of like putting a puzzle made from words together.
I hit a glitch with WordPress last night. I would comment, and they would say there was an error sending it. I tried commenting on this a couple of times, but it wouldn’t go through. That happened to me a few times on other sites, and I finally quit trying. Grrrr…😬
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Not gonna lie, it was a challenge for sure. Yeah WP is weird like that, probably went to spam.
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If you’re like me, though, you enjoy a good challenge on occasion.
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Absolutely 😁
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😎
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Here’s to moving past that toxic relationship… Sounds like it was a weird space… Anyhoo…
Here’s to happy anniversaries with decent human beings.
~B
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Truly a fucked up three years from age 18-21
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