MENTALLY AND SPIRITUALLY INCOMPATIBLE
Despite Our Mental And Spiritual Incompatibility
We Tried To Extend Our Best Behavior
Beyond The Couch And Bed
Where Our Sexual Selves Soared

Although She Lived In A Small World
Populated By An Assortment Of Ordinary People
I Tried To Exist On Its Outer Edges
Without Any Personal Assurances
That My Status As A Stranger
Would Eventually Change
And I Could Become Her Closest Companion

The More I Opened Up My Inner Circle
The Tighter She Closed Her Cubicle
And She Refused To Let Me Meet
Her Card-Playing Crowd

After Months Of Seeing Each Other
She Remained Relatively Remote
From My Offers Of Affection
And My Honest Efforts To Embrace
The Sweeter Side Of Herself

All Of Her Attempts To Live Large
Outside Of The Emotional Issues
Within Which She Had Become Encircled
Were Frustrated By Her Personal Faults
And Her Unwillingness To Acknowledge
The Unpleasantness In Her Personality

When She Spoke About Her Problems
She Believed That They Were Based
On The Unfriendly Acts Of Others
And That Her Self-Improvement Plans
Had Always Been Aborted
By The Enemies Against Her Interests

We Were Neither Soul Mates Nor Friends
And To Say That We Were Close
Would Be A False Charge
About A Relationship That Survived
In The Lone Dark Shadows
Where The Sun Could Only Be Seen
When We Were Having Sex

During The Time When We Were Dating
I Spent Most Of My Weekends Alone
Without A Phone Call Or Contact
While She Made Her Secret Visits
With Her Kind And Her Kin

Except For Our Sexual Situation
The Evidence Of Our Intimacy Was Absent
And Whenever I Sought Her Friendship
She Pretended That I Was Poison