Divorce - Poem ouch

Divorce

Two years out now

I find that

They’ll always be there

At home in my mind

My family.

My wife

Now ex

Not enough for the

Mad man that acted

As the “head of the home”

My son will always be 13

My oldest daughter will always be 15

And perpetually worried

About the tragedy that is only months away

That will break this home

Her eyes alone see

Clear as they are

That soon…

And my youngest daughter

Eight years old

Thin and fit and full of all the

Light

That her sister has

But burning through her skin

Screaming through her pores

That she loves her life

Her LIFE

She will always be there as well

And the cancer that grows

And that is about to metastasize

Has almost begun to burst

It will always be

Just under the surface

Of her daddy’s skin

And she doesn’t know

And he doesn’t know

In this time frozen vision

That he is the one

The One

That carries the virus

That will kill everyone in the picture

That will spread to friends

Divide them

Make them feel what they maybe should;

That things are not always as they are

But why does this message have to come

From me?

In the end

The picture will fade

But not in my deepest parts

In my reddest heart

In my tightening chest

It will always look like this

It is a part of me

A part of me that I lost

I was not satisfied.

 --Eric Marley

December 2010