Lonely Divorce Poems

Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my...

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Angry Choices

You swooned at me, and I fell in feet first.
You made me feel as if I was brilliant.
But it was all a hoax.
My thoughts...

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She was and then she wasn’t. 
A ghost in the rearview. I can still feel her.
The glass slipping from my fingers. Shattered to pieces. 
Eyes...

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Once, so long ago, in love, we did believe
A union was forged, forever to conceive
But shattered dreams and promises untold
Betrayal's wrath, our story now unfolds

With...

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Doubts drown every step
In a mind that finds no peace.
Voices whisper promises
On a memory's lonely breath,
Reliving when each dream was ours-
Combined in hearts that shared
Each...

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

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Every night on the same bed
We continue to sleep in the same position
I wonder what killed the spark of our passion
You promised me forever 
Five...

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Sitting here drinking a glass of morning moo
Thinking about what I want to do
A lonely place I want to find
Leave the crazy behind
A little hill
That...

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Aloneness 
metamorphosizes 
into isolating loneliness
with haunting banshee-like screams; 
daily caged inside
perennially mute 
four walls, 
a divorced empty nester.
Inhabiting 
      ...

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It was great for a time
Sex and wine
Wine and sex
Then commitment and open and shut curtains.
Special delivery of child made the bond complete
Six months down...

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Although the darkness casts his pall
On everything that’s good and true,
A time will come when he won’t have
This power over you

A day will come when...

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If  I were your love
I would sand my sharp edges smooth 
And keep my touch soft
If I were your love
I would hold you 
So...

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Absence as I hear them calling
Broken as I feel them falling
Cardiac as it's stalling
Darkness has me crawling
Endeavoring to its installing
Fevered by enthralling
Giving into it appalling
Heartfelt...

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I’m so lost
I don’t know the direction I’m going
It feels so lonely being away from you
I’m here dreaming life with you

It’s different 
Losing myself to...

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Its better to move on,
Rather than living with the wrong one..
Its better to feel lonely, 
Rather than to feel that u r sitting at the...

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