All's not fair in love and war

It's not fair 
To live with someone
Human soul 
Passionate driven 
Hopes and needs 
You're a shadow 
Gaunt and Sloven 
You haunt their fullness 
Arrogant stranger 
Shedding crumbs 
Nothing sweet 

She can see you 
Your decay 
Your dust 
Your inadequacy 
Your triviality 
You can't keep up 
the hot pretense 
Being good 
Not eating beans 
Paying attention 
To her needs 

Intimate failings 
Cascade like ants 
In a summer storm 
It's not fair 
to keep her waiting 
Like a parrot 
In your cage 
Of gilded effrontery 
Dirty floor 
All that rot 
In your stillness 
Cold deceit
Why do we need 
To share a toilet 

It's not fair you know 
More foul and horrid 
To live with someone
Who wants to fly free 
When you're living without love 
With someone as lurid 
And coarse as me. 

26/05/18