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A Tale of Two Lovers

Posted by on July 17, 2016

He fell in love with a look

Not a woman

She brought to life

The fantasy he’d carried

Around in his head

Except she didn’t

Not in reality

He was in love with her

For a season

Until she broke

The illusion

Changed her look

Up until that point

He’d cheerfully disregarded

Anything in her behavior

Which didn’t match

His fantasy

But the visual matched

She had the audacity

To be dynamic

In tune with the environment

Not in the sense

Of being irrationally reactive

But analytically calculating

Like one who’s used to

Being on the right side of

Natural selection

Had she known

His love for her

Was so visually-based

She would have

Radically changed her looks

In the beginning

Spared them both

The slow metamorphosis

Of aligning themselves

To one another

All the while making sure

They’d both survive

The great what-shit-comes-next

Had he known how high

The quality of his life

Depended on her hidden strength

He wouldn’t have begun

The protracted conflict

To divide them

Actually, no

That’s not

What he tried to do

From his perspective

It was she who changed

Started all this confusion

People evolve

For different reasons

As much as he wanted her

To remain his fantasy

She was never

Just that

They’d met at one stage

In her metamorphosis

That appealed to him

Then she grew

Like she always did

And then they were heartbroken

He made the heroic effort

To save her from herself

She accused him of trying

To keep her in her place

Reaching into

His minute box

Of all things “woman”

Pulling out yet another

Misapplied label to define her

She made the heroic effort

To save him

Tried to stop him

From destroying them

He conservatively held on

To that which

No longer existed

She tried to bring

Him along her journey

He refused to move

At what point

Do you concede your investment

Of time, energy and fantasy

How much reality

Has to sink in

What is the sign

Do you wait for someone

To treat you worse than

You’d treat yourself

Whose stubbornness

Finally wins out

You wake up one morning

And remember you used

To be happy

Together

It is the greatest con

Of fairy tales

Living happily ever after

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