Susanna's Seven Husbands

Inspired from a short story by Ruskin Bond this poem's fraught with conflicting emotions just as women are...:D

Susanna's seven husbands
Died one after the other
And left Susanna dear
In a spot of bother

She didn't miss them much
Though she missed them twice over
But getting rid was better
Than being the silent spurned lover

She loved each of them
Death still sealed their fate
Killed one after the other
And satiated Susanna's hate

Labelled a succubus, a witch
Susanna's still in the mansion
Shunned by the familiar and the stranger
Wearing out life's last session


But her spirit still burns bright
For she calls society's bluff
She isn't shunned for being thought a killer
But because she's had the last laugh

Reviews

[Sel Whiteley]

Wow, how wonderfully you pent this narrative. The rhyme works really well, particularly in changing the scheme at the end, to make those final lines stand out. Theyreally summarizes the social story so succinctly, masterful and shocking.

[imawriter]

oh I absolutely love this!

===She isn't shunned for being thought a killer
But because she's had the last laugh====

Those last two lines say it all

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. i appreciate the spirit with which this has been written ... and your words flow beautifully as always ... my only humble submission would be that ... men and women suffer from conflicting emotions ... i mean if you met my absconding soul mate ... you would collapse ... he is constantly in a state of maddening oscillation ... can you imagine ... i'm ending up publishing his poems in an anthology of poems ... including a poem called "desires of a fourth dimension" that led to my company, the fourth dimension ... which is the publisher of the anthology ... he who is the father of the fourth dimension and would tell me that the fourth dimension has no expiry date ... lost complete faith in it ... and in his poetry ... and my poetry ... and our poetry ... at the same time ... if his oscillation requires me to oscillate in the opposite direction ... to balance the equation ... then i have succumbed to that ... even though ... typically ... i'm pretty slow and random ... and take a lot of time ... to budge from any stance or position ... my point being that everyone ... at some point in their lives ... experiences conflicting emotions ... including susanna ... of course ... :) ...