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Writer's pictureBistra Stoimenova

SCARLETT AND JANE

Women are like the grains of sand

No two alike you'll find across the land

We cannot compare an age to age.

Instead, we'll measure page to page.


Scarlett was no-beauty, some would say

but any man was hers if she would will

She had a charm and would love to play

and many flocked 'round her heart to steal


She got married to a boy she hardly knew...

To him she was married only days a few.

Soon after taking off the wedding gown

he was off to war, out of sight and... town


Quickly widowed and the war was on,

Scarlett was at a loss of what to do

with a child and her fortune gone,

she chose a Husband number two.


Perhaps a loser in the modern view

but he helped Scarlett to her feet.

Alas, it was not a dance for two

as he failed her standards to meet.


Then he was dead and that was all.

She was free in Rhett's arms to fall.

They fought, he came and went

but their love never really waned.


In contrast, Jane was only plain

and she was anything but vain.

An orphan, all alone on earth

and off for a rich guy to work.


The man was soon besotted with the lass

But trouble was then lurking in the grass.

Harm was a mad wife in the attic locked,

Jane didn't know of and... was shocked.


She ran away from him to atone her sins

but din't know that fate had other whims.

Jane had a vision of her love in flames

gave up and darted back to his estates.


They married, had a child, the end.

That's the contrast I tried to paint.

A Femme fatale, a damsel in distress

But come on, let us not digress...


If you could choose a life of those two -

One a damsel, and the other shrew -

What would be the option fit for you ;)

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