An Open Letter to (Potentially) Unfaithful Men
somehow...
after years spent chasing the wrong women for the wrong reasons,
countless one night stands,
and drunken, awkward encounters that never should have happened...
you find Her...
someone you click with...
someone who complements you in nearly every way...
someone who brings out the best in you...and you in her...
someone who doesn't mind you hanging out with "your boys"
or when you come home a little drunk every now and then
someone who tolerates your incessant belching and farting,
and the fact that you always leave the seat up in the middle of the night
someone who makes all your friends and family ask you
what the fuck you did to win the heart of someone so cool...
making you shrug you shoulders and say, "i don't know"...
and you won't know how, or why it happened...
only that you would gladly embrace Death to save her Life,
and can no longer imagine your Life without Her...
but, living as we do
in a consumerist society
that constantly tells us
that something newer and better,
is right around the corner...
and, sometimes
because to be human
is to be flawed
and prone to selfishness, greed...
or both...
as the saying goes...
this too shall pass...
and eventually the day will come when your eyes will no longer see everything you once cherished in your beloved, and you will her heart take for granted
forgetting, in an instant, all the nights you spent alone
in the time before your eyes first met hers...
you'll come to view your beloved Other through a distorted lens
that amplifies the negative and omits the positive...
and even this too would pass, but, like everyone...
you'll think this fleeting state is the End...
losing sight of something Timeless,
and forsaking it for a fleeting passion
and you'll meet another...
someone you think you click with...
someone you think complements you better than the one you're with...
someone you think is a better fit...
it may be her eyes, her hair, her breasts, her ass...
the way she laughs at your jokes,
strokes your fragile Ego,
and makes you feel like you did when you were younger and stronger
or it may be some other superficial detail that ultimately means nothing...
once you start down that path, there's no turning back...
and no God, no friend and no self-help book can save you
you will fall...
and soon, you'll find yourself lying awake at night, fantasizing about Her...
and how she's so much better than the woman you're already with...
and how much better your Life could be if you could only have her...
instead of the stranger sleeping next to you...
you'll convince yourself that you're right...
and invent reasons where none exist to justify the malice and deceit
beginning to take root in your heart and mind...
you'll think all these things and start to believe them
and eventually, fantasy will overwhelm reality...
your lust, selfishness and greed will corrode the bonds of love, loyalty and trust
that took so long to build
and soon, you will find yourself Alone
sifting through the Ashes of Eden for the clues to your Undoing
trying hard to understand how something so good went so wrong so fast
and you will blame her for getting fat and lazy
and you will blame your Jezebel for leading you astray
but eventually the painful truth will dawn on you
it was all your fucking fault
you were just too stupid, proud and stubborn to realize it.
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Cherish what you have, instead of lamenting what you don't have, or think you don't have.
Your fantasies will always seem better than Reality, but in the End they are just that - Fantasies, and regret is a terrible burden to bear.
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