Inner Woman

If I’d married him

it would have been

a psychological horror

I sent him his ring by

registered mail

After thinking it through

he wanted

an ever changing

image

in his mind

I wasn’t thin enough

I wasn’t blonde enough

I didn’t perform well enough

I just wasn’t enough

The divorce

complete

before he stripped

me of me

and turned a free spirit

into a caged slave

to unattainable perfection

I know

I

Escaped a fate

Worse than

Death