STAY

DIVORCE THROUGH AN ELEVEN YEAR OLDS EYES...

They are talking,my mom and my dad

Can tell it isn't going well.Please STAY.

For the sake of me please STAY.

The door opens out she goes.

No more mom.No more home.

What did I do?I didn't mean it.

Gone another blissful day.

It is a week now.No mom.

Where did she go?Is she o.k.?

I am so sorry I will be better.

I have to find her to tell her to STAY.

Dad let her come back.Oh wait she is here.

I tell her I am sorry for whatever I did.

Not you she says it is dad and I.

Drops me back off after a short visit.

Watching her pull away rips me apart.STAY.

Why did I do all these horrible things?

Dad says it is not me.Mom says it is not me.

Well what is it then?Help my family.STAY.

There is a fight I am told in a big building downtown.

I hear their all there.Mom,dad,grandma,grandpa and even my cousins.

I hear all the talk in the house.It is not good.

Everybody wants me.I want it all to be the same.STAY.

My things are now packed.I do not know where we are going.

A new house?A new town?A new school?Mom's for the weekend.

I only hug her for a little while it is already time to go.STAY.

Love to you both mom and dad.Would of been better to talk.

Nothing in my life will ever be the same.I am so sorry I'm bad.

Wish you would just tell me.I am eleven not two.STAY.

They still do not get along mom and dad.Nothing is the same.

Picking me up,dropping me off,all hell rides for me.

I do not like to talk anymore.Which parent is right?

That is all everyone wants to hear.Not what I think.

Screaming again they see eachother.I hate all of it.STAY.

Nothing will be o.k. The cuts I am making will...STAY.

Reviews

[A. H. Pinley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDVkkwl6aJo
This piece made me think of Lennon's "MOTHER". Collateral damage inbound to happen in divorce.

[lee von cleef]

Time , Stay, Bend look to the mending, salt over a shoulder, a horseshoe shape time the river,Yes we will stay.

[Holly Mason]

The river the wish to STAY....salt over the shoulder floats away...making the bend to mend visible to the heart.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this tears me apart...the children tend to think a parents' split is because of them...
and it never is...but the adults seem to forget that, especially when they fight in front of the kids...kids are so impressionable

you have done such a good job of writing from the child's point of view in this piece.

[Holly Mason]

Thank you fine sir...always

[wordman]

a sad write about divorce I guess it`s true for a lot of children

[s y e]

This is such a powerful write Holly - I loved it.

[Jack...]

Deck the halls with poems of Holly. My friend this was so very sad and what really makes it sad is...it is real and happens everyday. Nicely penned.

[Travis Gibson (poetic h..]

That was powerful.

[Holly Mason]

Thank you I love that statement...

[Travis Gibson (poetic heroics)]

It was well deserved.

[❤ Maggie ❤..]

Such a sad sad story coming from a child. Not many people think about the pain the children go through. Very well portrayed.

[FJ Davis]

So terribly sad, it rends the heart.
Always, we sacrifice the innocent.
Excruciatingly well told, Holly.

[Holly Mason]

thank you very much

[Dream Weaver]

Through the eyes of a child there's nothing more devastating then watching parents separate...The child naturally thinks it was his or her fault somehow and never fully understands until they are grown and realize they weren't at fault...Nicely done.

[Holly Mason]

thank you so...then we wonder what s wrong with todays youth
laws do not protect them only the adults in divorce parents can take eachother to court 80 times and continue the painful process they need to cap those laws truly

[Dream Weaver]

You're welcome and how true!