Saturday, August 13, 2011

Divorce

She earnestly believed in that first kiss
(tasting red licorice)
Of hand holding, romantic sunsets
meaningless love words
molding and attaching

Now whispered words,
            automatic endearments (false notes)
echo     back and         forth
a fierce volley of verbal fire

Wounds made more bitter from intimacy
pry open the spirit
The cavity pushed wider and
snapped (the knife-wielding ex opens her up)
As only a lover can

Promises once made
still valid
Hold emptiness, clutching the past,
in fear of aloneness,  the
agony of
being just one


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