(2.3) Russian Brides #2 (9/8/01) Some Become Victims... Poem by Karl Stuart Kline

I cannot understand
Why there are ugly men...
They’re handsome to look at,
But that’s only hair and skin

You turn them inside out
To have a look within
And there is ugliness
Festering and rotten

Foreign brides who’re looking
For love in a strange land
They are lovely women,
Looking for helping hands

They want a home that’s safe
Where they’ll have family
With a loving husband
Such is their fantasy...

All too often, reality
Is greatly different
For all those men who write
Want her to serve their ends

She can’t know the good men
From those who’re not her friends
She’s taking a chance that
She’ll meet an unhappy end...