August 20, 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 about two former spouses who never managed
to get over their divorce.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Twenty-two years later they were dead
And nothing was resolved, nor would it be.
Life, as is its wont, had gone ahead,
But both of them, though freed, were never free.
Both remarried, loved, fell ill, and died,
Buried separately, with space reserved
For those who mourned them most, the two outside
What once was home but could not be preserved.
What bitterness and blame, forgiveness, rage,
Guilt, shame, fury, impotence, and sorrow
Sloshed against the walls of each's cage,
A storm that never yielded to tomorrow.
How beautiful and sad, the love of youth
That, though it could not last, outlasts the truth.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/22year.html.
For more divorce poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/divorcepoems.html
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This week’s theme: Divorce
August 14: We’ll Go On, After You
August 15: Friends Go In and Out of People’s Lives
August 17: Jim Has Blue Eyes Flecked with Gold
August 18: Love Undoes Its Heritage Quite Slowly
August 19: There Is No Mountain Higher than the Wall
August 20: Twenty-Two Years Later They Were Dead
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