You're living in paradise

I'm getting tired of hearing your silly complaints.

You're angry because your husband isn't a saint.

Your husband forgets and leaves the toilet seat up and you think this isn't very nice.

You think you have it bad but you're really living in paradise.

Your husband has a few flaws but in my eyes he's great.

When I tell you about some other husbands, he'll be a man who you'll appreciate.

I've seen husbands who beat and raped their wives and some husbands who even threatened them with guns.

And you complain about the superficial things your husband has done.

Close to where I live, a man killed his wife and then set her on fire.

Be thankful that your life isn't so dire.

These poor women's lives have been completely destroyed.

And you have the nerve to complain because your husband goes out once a week with the boys.

Before you complain about your husband again, maybe you should think twice.

You think you have it bad but you're really living in paradise.

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Alex Weavers's picture

This is so close to not being poetry... you can write this sort of thing in paragraph form and it's fine, but when you try to make it rhyme then it gets all awkward because the line length and meter is ignored, rhythmic punctuation is missed, good lord, it just reads badly.