We'll Go On, After You

August 14, 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 divorce poem to the spouse who has left the family.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

We'll go on, after you,

Without you we'll go on,

Though something beautiful inside

Us all has turned to stone.

We'll go on, after you,

Without you through the years

Of pain and raw bewilderment

And brutal, angry tears.

We'll go on, after you,

Without you we will heal,

Though love may labor in the heart

And joy the loss conceal.

We'll go on, after you,

Without you we will grow

Together as a family

That you will never know.

We'll go on, after you,

Without you life goes on,

But neither hope nor happiness

Undoes what you have done.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/wellgo.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