Divorce - Another Matter Of Course (The Storm Brews) Poem by Daniel Partlow

Why has Divorce
Become such a matter of course?
Currents of unyielding force
Deep is thy chaotic course…
Thy plutonian source.

Why would we willingly break
Our families and sacrament forsake?
In the waters lies a cavernous intake
Named Sin, which leads to Vulcan’s lake.
The waters of iniquity awake.

Desperate acts come bearing woe,
When the opening to Sin begins to grow.
The first sign doth this tempest show:
The generous trades fail to blow
Distraction of el Diablo.

Unrealistic entitlement and want combine.
In loss of true respect – now all things decline.
Under the surface, heat builds in thermocline.
And causes upwellings of hot unhealthy brine.
The failing catch is the next ensign.

When loving desire turns to unholy craving
Then communication turns to rant and raving
Typhoons and droughts: all climes are misbehaving.
El Nino entrenched: the atmospheres enslaving…
But rescuers are still out there saving.

A man sustains the family with arms and back and soul.
The wife sustains with many a beautiful and natural role.
But when cloud defrauds the field it is a dry and dusty bowl.
Like all the fragrant fruit blossoms the hoarfrost stole.
And lovely forests all reduced to coal.

For many of us, the selflessness of ‘We’
Has become the selfishness of ‘Me’
But though a boat untethered from the dock is ‘free’
When the waves and gales come, it is lost at sea.
Biffed and wrecked unmercifully.



Because:
A broken cycle is Pride and hubris
Conceited Lucifer’s superbian fret.
Frigid storms of ice go to the Envious
Covetous Leviathan’s waters fete.
A raging fire, choking and sulpherous;
For perverted Asmodeus’s Lusty internet.
The boiling Greed of debt and avarice
Fraudulent Mammon’s casino bet.
A pit of snakes unto Sloth, apathetic and venomous
Deceptive Belphegor’s television set.
A meal of rats and toads for the Gluttonous,
Pushing Beelzebub’s addictive cravings whet.
Dismemberment of all blessed goodness
Hateful Satan’s Wrath doth get.

So take wisdom with thy spouse and mutual charity
And let thy matrimonial bond be a strong chord of three
Thou, thy spouse, and God, with vigilant constancy,
Compassion, duty, humility, love, and sobriety,
And enjoy thy blissful harmony


From Sunrise On The Mount - Published on Lulu.com - search 'Partlow'