Abuse Can Go Both Ways Poem by Biff McGuire

Men are drones; most women know it
The secret of getting along is don’t show it
Happy lives are spent within their grip
Unless they make that fatal slip
Letting on that they know we are under their spell
Can soon make a haven resemble a hell
The ego of men; Achilles’ heel so-to speak
Can affect them in ways that make Hercules weep
If he’s been made aware that she thinks it’s some “game”
That she can’t fail to win, he feels nothing but shame
A fuse is then lit that is hard to extinguish
Heart and then hand and then love is relinquished
And trust and respect that she once held so dear
Are replaced with a format of anger and fear
Leaving the man who once hung her the moon
Alone in his own mind and feeling life’s doom