Simple girl

May 27, 2010 at 6:59 pm (Cultural writing (migrants), Poems (PG rated)) (, , )

Why can’t I just be a simple girl?
appreciate a well kept house
a mowed lawn, a sizzling bbq?
be content with mothering
having two or three or many?
Why can’t I stay seated in the chair?
Why do I roam and search?
Why do I moan and lurch?
Why don’t I believe? have faith?

Why can’t I stay still?

Why do I mine, why do I rhyme?
Why do I pine for more?

Why don’t I fucking just go to bed?

Why do I feel ill, want to retch,
want to vomit and torment?

Why don’t I shut the fuck up?

I could have been happy
I could have baked the best cakes
brought pretty things for the house
I could have gone clothes shopping
and been excited about it
I could have let you take care of me
love and adore me forever
till the stars descended on us

this, I could have done
and loved every minute of it

if only, I was a simple girl.

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