Polyamorous
A new word is being bandied about.
Polyamorous is the word.
It basically means "loving many",
a thing I find rather absurd.
It's just a respectable sounding word
for what used to be "sleeping around".
To pretend that you love every one of them
just makes it sound more profound.
Of course I've loved many men in my life
but always one at a time.
The thought of multiple partnerships
was not my idea of sublime.
A dream? Or is it a nightmare
as jealousy spreads its pall?
Does saying one loves so many mean
one doesn't love any at all?
The fact that we aren't all faithful
is quite a different thing.
Accepting one's lover's lovers
is not the same as a fling.
I guess it takes someone special,
with never a grudge or doubt,
brimming with self assurance
but there aren't too many about.
The men I've seen living this kind of life
seem baffled by talk of pain
whilst the women pretend that its fine by them
so as not to be left, again.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned
and simply can't comprehend
but the free love ideal of the sixties
didn't last too long in the end.