No words influence a lover blind,
Nor make a quarrel lesser;
Nothing changes a born again mind,
From the fortresses' grieving confessor.
No act saves a marriage’s stopping motion,
Nor nurtures a relationship failed;
Nothing binds this cracked devotion,
Nor reinstates times that prevailed.
No thoughts can staunch the children’s tears,
Nor pray for parents’ resolve;
Nothing alleviates their keenest fears,
As they watch a world dissolve.
The truth relates estrangement’s course
No lie ever prevents divorce.
Copyright © 2011 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute it in any format; provided that mention of the author’s Weblog (http://poetryftalker.blogspot.com/) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved. Frank TALKER is also the author of Sweaty Socks: A Treatise on the Inevitability of Toe Jam in Hot Weather (East Cheam Press: Groper Books, 1997) and is University of Bullshit Professor Emeritus of Madeupology.
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