Tom Wright Poet Lyric

The Divorce Portrait Metaphor

The Divorce / Portrait Metaphor
By: Tom Wright 
January 16 2006

In each divorce there’s two portraits painted
But children, as pawns, only one will see.
*Neither portrait is ever quite as good or bad
As the portrait’s painter portrays it to be.

One hangs highlighted to view in best light
While with the other seldom makes the show;
It hangs dimly lit in some obscure place
Where the children lack opportunity to go.

It isn’t that the dimly lit portrait was so bad
Or had lost it’s desire for its progeny to view.
But extenuating circumstances at times forbid
I’ve never seen a Tango that it didn’t take two.


*Husband or Wife is usually never the evil person
The other portrays them to be.
Truth is found somewhere between the two
It’s he said, she said
And the children become lost with the truth.
Tom

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