JAN OF THE MANY EYES
It will not do, it will not do,
Zapping you into submission.
Robbing you of youth and freedom
The sweet loneliness of your times
The more I try to nurture life
The more I strangle
The harder I clutch
To love you would imprison you
Jan of the Many Eyes
Winner of the wisdom prize
So goodbye.
It will not do, it will not do,
Zapping you into submission
Stealing away lost dreams of romance
The sad sweet loneliness of your times.
To love you would imprison you
And that would be wrong
So...so long.
-Bruce Potts
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A poem about the end of a marriage of convenience between a gay man and heterosexual woman. Told from the point of view of the man.The many eyes refers to the woman not only seeing the struggle of the man visually, but sensing it as well. A sort of inner eye, if you will.
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