Friends Go In and Out of People's Lives

August 15, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is divorce.

Today’s poem is a number and divorce poem about the difficulty of removing a former spouse from one’s heart.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Friends go in and out of people’s lives,

Old and new, near and far, and yet

Removing former husbands, former wives,

Takes years of anger, sorrow, and regret,

Years of rage not easy to forget.

Still, one must remove them from one’s heart

Even while sharing what’s most dear,

Vanquishing one’s pain with all one’s art,

Embracing what one else could never bear.

Nor will one ever be completely clear.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/frien4.html. For more divorce poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/divorcepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Divorce

August 14: We’ll Go On, After You

August 15: Friends Go In and Out of People’s Lives