The woman who wore blinders

The woman who wore blinders

Paula Robles Nettel

She is a woman of 40 plus,

perhaps she has already lived all her passions,

for she stands next to that man

who constantly thinks of others,

for his nature cannot be tamed,

for her circumstances she rather accept,

she invested so much in him and that’s enough,

to sustain her dream even without his heart.

She will rather give away the years than to lose him.

How many of her precious years, will she give away?

She might think she has already lived all her passions,

for she has died inside without knowing,

for she worships the idea of him than herself.

And if she freed herself,

How many passions will a woman allow herself,

before she settles again,

into the convenient alliance of companionship,

and some sort of middling love?  

For a woman of 40 plus might never discover

blinders a man has never wore,

blinders, a man never asked her to wear.


From Oslo March 2014 and Stavanger May 2014