Death Without a Casserole
Thank you to Marilee Mansfield, whose marvelous metaphor for divorce inspired me to write this poem.
You left
Just for a little while,
And when you came back
We tried to take up just where we had been,
But you weren’t the same.
And you left again....
Longer this time,
And I really missed you
But your letters sounded happy
When you described the new place
Where I wasn’t there.
The connections we had together
No longer come to visit.
Some joined your new life
And others just feel too uncomfortable
To spend much time in your empty space.
The person that was our marriage
Died without a funeral,
No flowers and no casket,
No singing and no wake,
No covered dishes brought by friends,
And only one mourner.
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