By Isolde
Date: 23 November 1998

Sacrifice

Trapped in this relationship
Gaining the moral high ground
But losing so very much of myself
Doing the right thing
Putting the needs of another first
Someone innocent
Someone worth this sacrifice
My sacrifice
Of myself
On the altar of this warped union
With a man who doesn't love me
Doesn't speak to me
Doesn't hear me
Doesn't touch me
Doesn't see me
Doesn't know me
And doesn't want to
Yet here I stay
Striving for a higher goal
But saddened
By this state
Of perpetual inconsequence