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Reconciliation :
"One Woman" Poem

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 RippedSoul (original poster member #40055) posted at 10:55 PM on Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

My fWS sent me this poem today and said he really liked it. That's all he shared. I'm not sure, exactly, what to make of it, but it feels positive. What do you think? Am I grasping? Or is this legit?

One Woman

by Ron Carlson

Oh, the old love song again and again

devotion and desire without end,

a woman half dressed somewhere and

being admired, or dressed and being admired.

These men go off alone into their rooms

and write it down: she was this and she was that.

Every man says she's the woman above all,

on a pedestal, though no one says pedestal,

that would be crazy,

and there's a thousand of these poems,

and by that I mean a million declarations

of this singular love of this one of a kind woman,

so rare, an absolute phenomenon which

many times rivals the moon or the oceans,

or the wind in the trees or night or any of the

furniture of night or day.

You see what I mean:

big unknowable things.

What are we to make of it? This:

it's true. Each man is telling the truth.

Each woman puts all the other women second.

It's the way. The strap of her gown off her shoulder,

and the paradox prevails. These poems are

all true. Each woman stands alone

in the doorway or on the pedestal

in the perfect light.

"One Woman" by Ron Carlson, from Room Service. © Red Hen Press, 2012. Reprinted with permission.

BW: 55; SLAWH: 52; M: 28 yrs
DD#1--11/30/12 (prostitute 1)
DD#2--1/29/13 (WH confessed: P1, AP, escorts 1 & 2)
DD#3--9/13 (trolling MILF site)
DD#4--10/8/13 (EA with AP cont'd)
DD: 26; DD: 24; DS: 22; DS: 20
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OldCow18 ( member #39670) posted at 11:06 PM on Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

I hope that it is positive, but I have to admint, I'm confused by the poem.

Me, BW forty something, DD & DS,
Married to WH (49) 11 years, together 16
D-Day 6.8.13

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