Divorcing

Divorcing

Divorce you say
it is a pain
that will never go away

Always left
feeling incomplete
isolated
beneath someone’s feet

rejection is never easy
and being alone is harder
than it seems

stop for a moment
think it through
loneliness is shrewd

divorce you say
only if it must be
but please think
what have the last ten years
meant to your family?

--Sherry Lynn Hull Richardson