When A man Loves A Woman !

Don't ask a man like me
What is it that's wrong
I'll never be able to tell you
I have to pretend to be strong.

Even though my heart is bleeding
In it's cage of bone
And though I desperately need you
I have to show I can manage alone.

When all I ever wish to do
Is put my head in your lap
And even then I'm ever so afraid
That it may be a scented trap.

For freedom I have to seek
And whatever joy it brings
I cannot afford to be seen
Tied to your apron strings.

You are the sister who loves me
The mother I'll always need
The daughter I've always longed for
And the woman who helps me breed.

When I'm full of lust
I want you to be my whore
And when I'm feeling satiated
Want you like the angel before.

As a man I'll always need you
Because you have given me life
And yet you are the one I bed with
Sometimes mother, most-times wife.

I put you on a pedestal
When it suits my whim
Then drag you down into a gutter
If I'm feeling grim.

I put you up atop a shelf
Where even I can't reach
God help you stupid woman
If my norms you dare breach.

The wings I decorate you with
Are only there for show
Don't you dare fly away
Don't you ever dare go.

I come from you and so need you
Yet of you I'm so afraid
That's why I keep you in chains
For I'm imprisoned by your braid.

I'm terrified you'll leave me
Hence you in an airless room keep
Lest you someday run away
Without disturbing my sleep.

I know you'll laugh at what I say
And find it hard to believe
For if I say I need you
Why am I  always the one to leave?

A strange way of showing love, you'd say
By putting women in a cage
And torture them and torment them
In your fits of rage.

And if you really love a woman
The ways you say you do
Then why murder the very spirit
That endears her to you.

Don't ask me for heaven's sake
For I just can't explain
Put it down to testosterone
And a pea-sized brain!

~Siddharth Sanyal~

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