Torn

Caught in the middle with nowhere to go Between two strong-willed women Manipulators according to their wiles Related to one by blood The other by dint of wedlock Which one has the greater pull On the tide of his wracked emotions The chosen controller of his home Or the one with the tidal power of blood shared by her birth? How he is tossed and torn Amidst the twin but hostile competing tides Mercilessly dragging him one way ,then the other Swamping his compass of clear thought With loyalty tested and doubted By the partisan and opposing currents Whose anger remains unbridled And unforgiving to the depths of their very souls Fighting their unrelenting battle In towering crests of surging emotion Hoping to gain total supremacy Over him who is no more than a piece of flotsam In this relentless clash of tsunamis Being dragged ever deeper by both irresistible forces In the competing riptides of disturbed and irreconcilable passions, Leaving him feeling helpless As he loses the will to live.