When A Woman Goes To Pieces: Poem

When a Woman Goes To Pieces

When a woman goes to pieces
Hysteria and fragility are often evoked
When a man goes to pieces
Its often just workload.

The opposite can also be true.
If a woman tells her mate
I'm going to pieces he'll tell her
'Get yourself together,
Or soon it'll be too late'.


A woman is rarely alone when she wants to be,
In times of acute personal misery.
But alas when she doesn't want to be
People become rare in their scarcity.


So social fronts and smiling facades
Busy workers and perfect mothers
Mill around busy shopping arcades


What if a woman has the right to say
Please just leave me alone for today?

Copyright: Rani Turton

It Is So Hard To Be Alone: Poem

It Is So Hard To Be Alone

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It is so very hard to be alone; from dawn to dusk

From dusk to dawn, alone, alone alone.

From a chant to a rant to a highpaying job

To an apartment in St Germain des Pres

That everybody wants to rob.

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It is very hard to be a cog in the wheel

It is very hard to be a cog without a wheel

To turn, to burn in one's flaming solitude.

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From birth to death, this profession of existence

Making an art of solitude, an act of independance.

It is so easy to die alone.

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Copyright: Rani Turton