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The Web Poetry Corner - Norma Jean Duncan - I Yearn For a Man Who Will Never Return

I Yearn For a Man Who Will Never Return

by

Norma Jean Duncan

Inside these walls, I set and yearn
For a man I know will never return
He left ten years ago today
He took up with a blond and went away.

My life is empty as I face the days alone
I dream of having someone to call my own
I try to be brave and show the world
That I am a very liberated girl.

I lay awake sometimes at night and think
It's enough to drive a person to drink
I'll never let my friends know I set and yearn
For a man I know will never return.

I don't know why he didn't love me
I tried to be all a woman should be
I washed and ironed and cooked his food
I often slept in the nude.

I cleaned his house and mowed the yard
I let him make love to me, even when I was tired
I know I'm not slim, and nicely stacked
I look like I've been mashed together and packed.

I balanced the budget, mended his clothes
Went to all the places that he chose
Now I work as a nurse, make my own way
I buy myself something nice with my pay.

Yet, inside these walls, I set and yearn
For a man I know will never return
He left ten years ago today
He took up with a blond and went far away.

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Why don't you look at The thing called love
by: Francis Duggan
from: Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia

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