Divorce Prayer admin: Divorce Prayer by
Stephen C. Basso, Poet
August 31, 2004
[sent via email 9/3/04 to Michael.">
Morning, noon and night the verbal jabs are thrown, blow by blow, killing the solemn oath of marriage…fight, argue, yell, destroying, strangling any last gasp breath of happiness that could possibly be left in our home…our spoken language is now used as a weapon, piercing , digging into the flesh like a dull, rusted knife into the soul…the suffocating feeling, the hatred, guilt, anger and frustration now dominate the home where serenity and peace had moved out long ago…days are tolerated, not lived, days are misery, trying to merely get through until we can possibly, mercifully get to sleep and end the drama…money rules, kills, violates the relationship, where there was a time we prayed to better ourselves financially to enjoy and live life, now we only pray for monetary relief to run…run fast and far away from each other… as quickly as humanly possible, anything to rid ourselves of the vile, ugly, former now tarnished, festering, disgusting old love…old love is like a worn stinking sneaker, shit left in a toilet with no paper, bar puke in an alley, a week old dead carceous now filled with unsavory flesh eating maggots…in the desert sun in august with no breeze…where love was grand, it now is sand in the eyes of my soul…each day passes, only praying for the god given opportunity to get out, to run, hide, afford a plane ticket to the far corners of this earth never to seen or heard from again…bad marriage is hell on earth…a puss juggernaut that covers and eats our very being…my new messiah is a divorce lawyer with glasses and a blue pin striped suit with a brown faux leather briefcase…carrying in it’s worn distressed sensual leather material…the new holy grail…my divorce papers in which I will lose everything I have ever worked for in my life…gone will be all my worldly possessions… a small price if only I find love and attention…god is good…freedom is at hand, great god almighty…freedom from the puss infected, diseased life at last…
