Educating Pam

EDUCATING PAM – Part one

Twelve years ago they had shared wedded bliss,
but over the years, time became their nemesis.
Five children left not much time for romance;
it had been years since they had even danced.

Whimsical, delicate Pam always fun, always witty,
when she married Jason, many said “what a pity.”
Tall, aloof, and handsome with so much sex appeal,
she loved him immensely, that she could not conceal.

She constantly denied herself, his needs always first;
to her he was like water and she always had a thirst.
Jason had never loved anyone, but he liked her spirit
he laughed at her love ideas and thought them satiric.

He believed men should be boss and rule the roost;
their wives chief role should be to give them a boost.
He loved sex, but the results he refused to discuss;
after the birth of each child he would put up a fuss.

Pam no longer worked because he said it shamed him;
her children was her life, she ceased going to the gym.
As the pounds piled on, it drove them further apart;
she never mentioned the pain that grew in her heart.

She still loved him, but she believed he had taken a lover,
she hoped against hope their love they would rediscover.
He would look at her with distain, as he dressed to leave;
Later when alone she ate, her lonely life made her grieve.

Seven plus long years she had existed in quiet despair,
her need for Jason’s love was more than she could bear.
He forced her to beg him for money for all her needs;
Though once an accountant, he called her silly, indeed.

Forty pounds overweight, unloved, wary and dejected,
she called her sister Jan because she felt so wretched.
Now Jan was stylish, bubbly and radiated self confident,
she had wondered when Pam would come to her senses.

She believed in the vows of matrimony as much as anyone,
but it was time for Jason’s abuse of Pam to become undone.
Jan knew of Jason’s affairs and his harsh control over Pam;
she stayed quiet for Pam, as for him she could give a damn.

Jan sought to form a plan that would catch him unaware,
he had ignored Pam so long, what she did, he didn’t care.
With the children in school she was used to being alone,
now Jan would make some changes in his well-kept home.

She longed to take the smug look off his conceited face;
she wanted him to grieve and to live through life in a daze
He had brought her lovely, generous sister all the way down;
she only wanted six months to bring his arrogant ass around.

EDUCATING PAM ~ Part two

Jan and Pam plotted, planned and developed strategies,
on how they would make Jason suffer some indignities.
When Pam faltered, Jan cited all she’s been through;
how she needed for once to act the ass-kicking shrew.

Pam thought back to the day she met Jason at Starbuck.
He’d spent an hour telling her how the weather sucked.
She was taken by his long eyelashes, white teeth and smile;
she never once noticed it was he who talked all the while.

With elbows on the table she listened, agog and spellbound;
she had already planned a life with this love she had found.
Jason, with a captive audience, talked. This was his element;
he didn’t think of love, as with his life he was quite content.

He didn’t miss the glow in her eyes when she looked at him,
all prim and proper like the grand dames in old classic films.
He asked for a date, surprised they were both accountants
it was a shocker, but they promised never to be combatants.

With Jason and Pam passion was always hot, igniting to flames
he cared for her and in his heart he knew she felt the same.
After a year of a romance built only on feelings and emotions
Pam thought it time he let her show him her devout devotion.

Jason thought of the past year and all their great hot sex
finally, yielding to marriage, he thought, well what the hex?
He’d thought little of marriage; his parents’ were no models
but his would be different, for his Pam always loved to coddle.

As an only child Jason was self-centered, rude and spoiled
Pam, one of six, knew about life’s strife, drudgery and toils.
When their children started coming, Jason stayed in a huff.
The loving stopped; nothing she did was ever good enough.

Pam stopped her reveries when Jan asked for Jason’s password
to find any secrets on his computer that were perhaps untoward.
Pam trembled with fear at the thought of invading his privacy
Jan pushed her aside, ignored her, and showed her no mercy.

Jason as chief CPA of his company often brought files home;
it never occurred to him that they would not be left alone.
But the clever Jan flipped through pages and pages of files
she smiled slyly as she returned one to its neatly stacked pile.
EDUCATING PAM ~ Part three

Jan went through drawers and shook out books,
often giving the frightened Pam withering looks.
Pam stood by the window watching for Jason’s car;
she refused to back down, they’d come too far.

Jan copied documents and snorted often in disbelief;
how would he account for his action? He was the chief.
Pam whimpered softly, knowing her life was in a shamble;
but she still loved Jason and on it she is ready to gamble.

Jan argued about self-esteem, about Jason’s lover;
Pam was afraid to dig deeper for what she might uncover.
Jan took her by the hand and drove over to a townhouse.
When she saw Jason’s car all her hopes were doused.

Her old best friend Alicia lived up on the fourteen floor;
they ceased being friends, her conduct Jason deplored.
From the car Pam watched as he kissed Alicia’s hand.
Sick to her stomach, she had seen all she could stand.

As they sat in silence, tears trickled down Pam’s cheeks;
“I’ve seen enough, let’s go,” she said in a voice so meek.
On the way home, she looked at titles and rifled through files,
“Well I’ll be,” she said aloud. Looking at Jan, she finally smiled.

Pam who believed in integrity, felt a depression coming on,
Jan looked over and said “Stop it, where’s your backbone?
You called me and you must know I do nothing half way.
Your husband is a low-life; don’t you want to see him pay?”

Though twins, Pam was, unlike Jan, slow to anger and to react,
but when her mind was made up her she was pretty exact.
She thought of Jason and all the years of her life he’s stolen
he had taken her dignity. All his misdeeds would need a colon.

She thought of sleeping alone while he was out and about,
giving his love to someone else, that she had no doubt.
He never spent time with the children except to criticize,
telling each of them, coming from her they were no prize.

“The children” she cried, no longer able to hold it in
thinking, what they were doing to them was really a sin.
Jan turned off the engine and looked fixedly at sister Pam.
she had the evidence she needed, she didn’t need a diagram.

Pam quieted. “He made duplicate records of each account,
and the differences between each are staggering amounts.
I imagine he and Miss Alicia have been living quite well
and their time’s up; one’s about to join me in this wretched hell.”