Jealousy, overwhelmingly, increases insecurity

& curiosity, if you ask me, breeds infidelity.

So, jealousy and curiosity could destroy a family

If infidelity, eventually, or potentially, comes to be.

Emotionally, physically, cheating has a few degrees

But simply, curiosity, kills not the cat, instead the peace.

The inspiration for this poem came from the way the words jealousy, insecurity, curiosity, and infidelity sounded together. Despite their negative denotations, they have an almost sing-song quality and from this sprung the idea to write a sort of nursery rhyme about infidelity and its consequences. I wanted each line to have a similar rhythm much like a traditional nursery rhyme. I also used the "ee" sound throughout the entire poem, with each line rhyming with the other, to make it sound even more sing-songy. The message of the poem is not incredibly complicated, much like any nursery rhyme. With this poem, I am essentially saying that although curiosity in and of itself is an innocent emotion, it could lead to cheating and all of the negatives associated with it. Furthermore, jealousy which often goes hand in hand with insecurity, can further exacerbate the situation. I enjoy combining styles and themes in different and not necessarily traditional ways. For instance, writing a sonnet about getting drunk or, as we see above, a nursery rhyme warning against infidelity and how easily it can stem from mere curiosity. Additionally, the format of a nursery rhyme provides the additional layer to the poem that not cheating on one's significant other is (or at least should not be) a difficult concept to understand. It is so easy, even a child could understand it provided my handy-dandy nursery rhyme. It is not exactly hard to not be a bad person, but sometimes people may need a little bit of assistance.