The Trophy Wife

The Trophy Wife

10/2/2014 3:51:59 AM

Written by Philessa Hooks Jenkins

aka Lady PJ

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I feel stuffed like one of those prized deer heads

 That men line their walls; with doting admiration

Senselessly seething with joy at such a wondrous accomplishment

I, the trophy, belittled by the thought or the intention

As if it gives me pleasure to lower myself to being a stuffed animal

I have not the slightest wish to be an ornament for any bodies’ wall

Why then would any women want to be labeled a trophy wife?

What value could that position give except low self-esteem over time?

A value comparable to a dead animals head hanging on some hunter’s wall

Ponder that...