Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Vengeance

 



Vengeance


                    I wake most days crying

                    I'm not sure if tears are provoked by dreams

                    Or come immediately when I open my eyes

                    I don't want to believe

                    That even while I sleep

                    My mind finds no place to hide

                        from the sorrow that is burrowing into my life


                    My sadness is two fold

                    I have fear for the rest of my life

                    But

                    It is the disbelief

                    That he so suddenly no longer cared for me

                    That causes me the most strife

                    It is, that one day everything seemed fine

                    And then the very next day

                    He left me and all that was ours behind

                        To her bed

                        To her, as his new life


                    It is the rejection, the abandonment

                    Of, not just me, but our children

                    Our life, our marriage and home

                    Our plans, our pets, our past, our memories

                    Everything that seemed just fine

                    Until I found out

                    One Wednesday

                    He'd been living a secret life

                    Under my blind eyes

                    Behind my trusting back

                    He'd been secretly and blatantly

                    Risking all that we had

                    Not for days or months, even

                    But for years

                    With a best friend of mine

                    I don't know how to reconcile any of that


                    I try so hard to move on from sadness to anger

                    Anger will help me survive

                    I know this

                    And, the anger exists, absolutely

                    It is just not stronger yet

                        than the sorrow

                    I don't know when it will come

                    But ... I need it to come

                    I need to wake no more with tears

                    I need to wake tomorrow

                        with the strength that anger creates

                        to get me out of this

                        not feeling so broken and rejected

                        not feeling so lacking

                        not feeling so confused and abandoned

                    I need to wake tomorrow

                    Or soon

                    Free of this sadness I have for me

                    And I have for my children

                    I need to wake on the day

                    When my sorrow is replaced

                        with vengeance 

                    

                    

                    


                    

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