“TO CHOOSE LOVE BY ANOTHER’S EYES”

Poem composed on March 7, 2009

Yet another introduction
Yet another speculation
Yet another expectation
Yet another illusion

How many times must I go through?
Being blindfolded from what is true
“To choose love by another’s eyes”
And live the union full of lies

How many times must I endure?
Having given this heart so pure
Under pressure to make it workable
Yet he was emotionally unavailable

How many times must I listen?
To him telling me over and over
Of how he still misses and loves her
How much longer must I be patient?

Should I laugh or should I cry?
Laugh over the abuse accepted
Cry for being under appreciated
Perhaps I should laugh and then cry

The quote "To choose love by another's eyes" is taken from Wiliiam Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This poem is inspired by a girl whom in her sincere effort to fulfill filial piety duty to her parents and to please her parents have gone through parental introductions but as always the guys were emotionally unavailable, entangled in forbidden relationships. She has always been expected to win their hearts but no matter how good she is, these guys do not see her, for their hearts already belong to those girls… In the end she put a line and a full-stop to the condition and set herself free…