Losing Trust Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Watching men in life constantly lose control, cheat,
lie and deceive the ones they claimed to love with
all their hearts, then go out with other women.

Seriously wanting to know what kind of inhuman people
they are, what were they thinking, why didn't they
just stay single?

Then women wouldn't be hurt and maimed, losing the
trust they learned after being born, how cruel men are
to do this to the ones they say they love.

Maturing, leaving out that one word from their vocabulary
women end up being jealous and angry all the time,
knowing only the lies of their husbands.

Their children are hurt by this infidelity, even though
their fathers rationalize what they're doing, trying to
make it acceptable in their own minds only.

Who is to blame in the end, the man who cannot stay true,
or the woman who believes in love and then finds out the
truth in the end.

Either way, both of them contribute to their children
growing up learning not to trust or have faith in the
opposite sex, and boys learn to follow their father's
examples, carrying on this disgusting legacy.