This Poem was Submitted By: Barbara J Parisi On Date: 2001-11-12 23:26:47 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Divorce Of Two Lives

Your pain and humiliation give me no satisfaction,       you're without a home. I have walls to clean that echo your fury       and a dog with big brown eyes. Your anguish bleeds through a face       that refuses to look in the mirror. I have thrown away the guilt of goodbye,       I want to sign my old name again. Your sons are quite now;they've heard my sobs       behind the bedroom door. I have family pictures to give you,       will you keep them locked away? Your parents sit alone and hold hands,       they cried for me when mother died. I have no answers why I waited nineteen years,       I only know I don't want nineteen more. You will not languish without me;       you'll soon forget I did the dishes alone. I have my father's old clocks and grandpa's face       and time to love complete. You want the piano, and no child support,       take the bed and its emptiness too. I have daffodil bulbs to plant       that will bring me pleaure in the spring. You cannot bring me back now with promises,       others heard what I didn't realize. I want my dad to put a red bib under my chin,       I love his crummy spaghetti sauce. You'll ride your new tractor through fields       I never heard music in. I'll write books you won't read, and       watch a red sunset bring love. 

Copyright © November 2001 Barbara J Parisi


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