Bitter Greens

Just read a good book
Called Bitter greens
The Rapunzel story
Retold again but with a catch
You remember how the father
Stole a bunch of herbs
To keep his pregnant wife
Happy and full of life & then
Oh to end up in so much strife!
From a bunch of bitter greens 
Comes so much tragedy
If only you could see
How much pain was caused
By that bunch of greens
Her desire for those herbs
Became too much for him
He could not bear to see her thus
So in dead of night
He stole those herbs of green
Did he regret his theft?
Of course: but it took many years
So much sadness; so many tears!
But life was never easy then
What choice had women then?
Very little say they had
In any of their lives
You either wed as bid
You could become a nun
Or there was the last option
To sell your body & your soul: for life!