4.30.2022

you took me to a place where I could see the evil in my character

My heart was a stone wall 
you broke through anyway. 
 
My heart was an island garden 
about to be trampled by you. 
 
You didn’t want my heart; 
you were on your way to my body. 
 
None of it was my fault. 
You were everything to me, 
not just beauty and money. 
When we made love 
the cat went to another bedroom. 
 
Then you forgot me. 
 
Not for no reason 
did the stones 
tremble around the walled garden: 
 
there’s nothing there now 
except the wildness people call nature, 
the chaos that takes over. 
 
You took me to a place 
where I could see the evil in my character 
and left me there. 
 
The abandoned cat 
wails in the empty bedchamber. 
 
[Louise Glück {1943- } 'Marina', from Meadowlands]

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