Divorce

About the feelings and experience of divorce

DIVORCE

Divorce

The nights were long 

In the opposite poles 

We inhabited.

Once, you could not tell us apart 

 

Time crept on eon legs 

It was everything or nothing

What everyone dreaded and avoided 

Those were no tame days, I tell you

Though rather unreal

You can do everything, they lied.

A long war followed

Nothing happened and my body went limp

the air thick with hate

You retired early from the game  

Though the song went on forever

Nothing to say or do

Though the day went on forever

She left me at the party and said, “Goodbye now for good.”

“Go ahead and blame me,” said the she-villain

On Saturday a river of tears drowned a forgotten day

Only I came in to the empty apartment

But the house did not exist, slowly I saw very clearly now 

knowing nothing but the end

This is everything and more. 

A glacial time was had by all

And the elephant never forgets 

The façade that I came back for

turned into a long war,

A long war

My past was tame by comparison 

And, yes the song went on forever 

It was divorce

A life for a vacation

I did not want to try

In a long war 

A long war

It must have been awful

The old man said 

that horrific cleavage of two souls entwined

Only a child knows how much,

Nothing known, nothing seen

Whisked away like some errant balloon 

To unplanned lands and places

Reviews

[lovejulez03]

the pain and confusion comes out clearly, with beautiful wording. Well done. Hugs for you as well

[Victor Gamma]

Thank you for the thoughtful review. "Many are the uses of adversity," said the wise Bard.

[John the Baptist]

This one overflows with pain. The imagery is masterful and it spares us none of the agony of a bitter split. Indeed, it sounds like "a long war." More painful than the actual separation, though, is the realization of loneliness the speaker encounters after returning to what had once been a happy home after the last shot has been fired. The last lines express the enormity of the void he now faces.

[Victor Gamma]

Thank, John, I would like to think poetry is one of those things that can help us deal with life, by reflecting on it & re-processing it.