Vow No More Poem by John Sensele

Vow never more to succumb to sweet talkers
Who sugar coat images they present to gullible audiences
Who they take for a ride and distress; stalkers
And street walkers utter sweet sentences to break through your defences.

Vow no more to blurt nonsense and hurt a lass
Who chooses to bruise her ego and super ego for your sake;
Repay the lass with a plethora of sacrifice that matches her high class
Although it goes against your grain to preserve her cake.

Vow no more to splurge family salaries
Entertaining your throat to gloat among binge boozers
Whose specialization starves wives and children's granaries
Which run empty of staple ingredients because their dad joins losers.

Vow no more to unleash economic, physical and emotional violence
On your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your concubine or your spouse
On whom you depend for balance
And support to clear out of your home a matrimonial louse.