Expropriated history

revisionist mystery

When you became an Ex,
apparently that gave you
some Extraordinary powers
of Expropriation --
but you did not pay the
requisite penalty
to revise our history --

The white knight
who always did right,
abandoned the damsel to toil
in dungeons of despair
caring for your brood,
forced to bend with
your every mood.

You do not get the
posthumous prize
in your new guise
the perfect daddy
wonderful husband
Excellent server
of supreme bullshit --

you might forget
but I remember it.

Author's Note

I chose this song for a lot of reasons, one of which is the story of Troy
is one of the biggest betrayals of history.

Reviews

[Rob Santana]

Experienced this with my parents and myself. No one throwing rice or having receptions for this huh.

[Lyn Anderson]

Nope. I just wish it could be a little quicker and a little more civil.

[therisa]

KL, this poem reminds me, of my uncle bitter battle with his ex, who poison my cousin, to the rest of the family. He took my cousin, to another province, because he was sick and tired of waiting, for the Ontario system to work. Had he waited, my cousin would have been awarded to him. I hope, you don't have to face, a similar battle with your ex. For no one wins.

[Lyn Anderson]

If the wheels were any slower they would be moving backward, and in the meantime he gets to spew whatever lies he wishes.

[therisa]

And the kids, are the ones, who suffer the most, in this bs battle. I wish the system was more fair, for all involved, in this situation.

[Lyn Anderson]

You got it. I bite my tongue as much as I can as I am told by all the powers that be I must, but I can't understand why it takes so damned long when it is so important.

[therisa]

I wish I knew, KL, but I have never married.

[Chris]

always something... always...

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes there is always something.

[NoelHC]

Another fine rant on the inequities of the divorce system here. I know you well enough to know the "post humus" instead of "posthumous" must be intentional, but I am missing something.
Well done.

[Lyn Anderson]

Nope, the auto correct got me. Thanks.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

How the actors shuffle off their parts when parting is no sweet sorrow! A hard hitting wake up call indeed.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. It will be like this for a while unfortunately, with delayed legal nonsense and an ex who decides to use the children as sounding boards for lies and revisionist history.

[TL Boehm]

I don't have an ex myself - but my parents split and it was nasty on both sides. this poem has fangs, and rightly so. Well done.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks, yes, unfortunately, it somehow becomes a license to change history, and use the children as reporters of the new versions. Sit back, bite tongue, write rebuttals, gather evidence, wait for court.