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Free to go wherever I wish if I can afford it
Never being caressed by an amorous touch
Nobody telling me how to spend my day
Nobody with me to go out for dinner or such
Free to spend the day in bed if I can get the day off
Nobody ever lying beside me in bed
Free to walk on the beach or in the park even long after dark
Nobody at home to care if I wind up dead
Free to find somebody to be with or not
I think I'll say not, because I like to be free
Sometimes it gets lonely being ever alone
But being together was always a burden to me
~Petra~
Notes:
The model looks a little happier than I wanted. I was seeking a more pensive look. However, I was so thrilled to find a middle-aged model, and one that even looks a little bit like me, that I snapped this picture up.
I know that perhaps some will feel this poem is depressing. To me it isn't, it's simply realistic.
I know that perhaps some will feel this poem is depressing. To me it isn't, it's simply realistic.
I truly hope that nobody sees fit to tell me that "love can still come to me." Honestly, I don't want it. Sometimes I feel a little lonely without a man in my life, but most of the time I'm happier without one. My kids are my pride and joy, and as for the sex type thing, most of the time I truly don't miss it at all. If I may be so bold, it was never worse the hassles that came with it.
It took me a while, but I have learned that there is no shame in going solo. A romantically unattached person is not less of a person. I always hated people trying to set me up because poor Petra was going to grow old and die alone. I'm going to grow old and die either way. I will have happier twilight years if they aren't spent attached to someone who is more a burden than a joy.
Silly Petra almost published this on Team Netherworld's Animal Anarchy blog!
Silly Petra almost published this on Team Netherworld's Animal Anarchy blog!
