Childhood Divorce Poems

Here's a story poem about a girl's tragic descent, imbued with dark imagery:
A Broken Doll's Lament
Tiny fingers, a gap in the wood, a scene etched...

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Shut behind the door,believing in kinship
Forenoon the scars on mother paraylzed me
Every knife calling out as a saviour
The smiles seem a distant dream
Goblins dreams turned...

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When the sh*t hits the fan and the plates hit the walls 
And Mummy’s voice screeches, “You ain’t got the balls”
The sound of wood splintering...

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Devastated
Individuals
Vowing love now departing
Over time
Reconciliation
Comes with
Eternal peace for all....

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Sentences 

the sirens were crying
and 
so
was
i
and
so
were
you,
Mom,
they
were 
coming
to
save
him
not
you,
not
us
because
you'd
be
waiting
until
he
got
home
he
was
being
saved
from
himself
we
were 
being
saved
momentarily 
for
the 
length
of
a
prison
sentence 
and 
he
got
saved
until
he
came 
back
even
more
broken
looking
for
someone
to
hurt
just
as
bad
as
he
was
his
sentences
were
shorter
than
this
one
prison
or
verbal,
they
didn't 
end
in
release dates
or
in
periods
they
ended
in
bloody
fists
both
prison
and 
verbal
sentences....

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The lump in my throat compelled me to believe.

that once there was a time of festiveness,

which has now turned into a vicious rhythm.

The unrealized desires...

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It can be determined that each molecule of me 
will never reside in 
the same space and time as 
once before. So, every place I’ve...

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Ultra-sound

I see you. 
I see you there, 
inside of me. 
How can that be? 

What a miracle you are? 
What a joy to come in...

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When she was young,                                          ...

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I heard you all along
I was selfish
I closed my ears to you
A young boy inside
Felt he had to hide

I don’t know how to love 
I...

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The smell of pipe smoke and engine oil
were occasional markers
of an occasional man.

A constant in it’s slightest form he runs
from those in last, and those...

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FEELINGS

Here it all goes again 
the heavy pressure building upon my brain 
unpause my sad songs once again 
And scream inside to release my pain
Gasping...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Still Daylight
In the Dark

The days are gathering…
dust, 
and so am I. 
Not intentionally, 
but metaphorically. 

I longed to have more time. 
I dreamed I could...

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Windows

This is a time to look out, 
and to look in. 
First to see around all the edges, 
and then back into the mirror. 
...

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