DIVORCE



WHY A DIVORCE

Bruce Lee feeling retro

acrylic paint on canvas by Robert Margetts

Parents are like countries

always fighting and splitting apart

They forget words, emotions, and commitments

that they made to one another

They only remember the hate, the bad

and the hurt that they did unto each other

Fortunately I’m not a parent

so why do I feel the pain.

WEDDING BLUES



WEDDING BLUES

The rejected man

acrylic paint on canvas by Robert Margetts

Five to midnight

the circle broken and a nail

twenty half moons alone in the alter

jilted at the rail

Pupils barren of life

drip the dew that webs the skies

constricted by the veil

awakened to the lies

The ring and the gauntlet

the sour blood and the glove

hidden beneath the shame

the snake shed his love

The shower before the alter

the china broken in the slush

the hands move with time

as bristles fall from the brush

The square completed and the nail

sealed inside a prison of pine

ashes to ashes, dust to dust

only the rings survives time.