Jealousy

It's true we can only be jealous of the people that we most admire
Of the people who have set a high standard and others around them inspire
Perhaps the blind not fully open of the tiny window of the soul
And the light that we are not receiving of our human frailties take toll.

Yet jealousy is not a good thing the man is jealous of his wife
He does not want her to have male friends and he gives her a miserable life
She feels she can't live with his failings and she walks out on him one day
With such a dysfunctional person few women would wish for to stay.

The human frailties of jealousy and possessiveness one might say not that far apart
And jealous people self destructive when it comes to affairs of the heart
Jealousy has wrecked many a marriage as well as many a love affair
And it gives rise to divorce and estrangement as psychologists are of all too aware.

Jealousy is so self destructive but then suppose we are what we are
You do not like your next dooor neighbour because he drives a bigger car
The tiny window to the soul is shaded and the light it just can't filter through
And if jealousy one of your failings the biggest loser will be you.