DIVORCE: When Matrimonial Bonds Sunder

	Divorce is tearing your heart away –
	it's cutting up dreams
	as hope fades away

	It's a refrigerator with rotten meat
	frozen next to rancid milk that stinks

	It's pretending to be normal
	while dark emotions run bold

	Divorce is casting your memories
	into deep, cimmerian shadows  
	before dying
	
	It is hearing the words
	"good bye" echo
	a thousand times across 
	the barren stretch of your soul

Cantara: (shaking her head) Ah, this is too wimpy! Hurt is a part of any relationship. 
         Might as well get over it. . .

Chris:   (nodding in agreement) Fer sure. If ya don't wanna be hurt, best ta stay aloof frum udders.

Miok:    (a bit bored) We need a certain amount of toughness to sustain our lives.

Tim:     Isn't the opposite also true? What good is toughness without sensitivity?


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from Heart Scenes: Emotional Landscapes via Art, Poetry, & Prose by T Newfields
Summary:  Some reflections on marriage and identity
Keywords: fragmented love, divorce & fragmentation, matrimonial rupture

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1987 in Nagoya, Japan ☆ Finished: 2015 in Tokyo, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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