Reflect Poem by Deborah Cromer

I am thinking of how you left me and threw our time away
We had built our lives together with honor and trust, day after day
Our moments we cherished richly and a hug would always do us right
We had misunderstandings and arguments, never did we actually fight

Young and tired, we worked hard everyday with more reason than most
We only had each other that we could celebrate and happily toast
Nothing fancy, but we adored and respected all that we together had
My boys loved you dearly and special, they did lovingly call you dad

Without you now I am learning how to live my life and how to be fair
I struggle each second, trying hard to do my best to somehow care
It is hard now, for many years I believed in you one hundred percent
Then you got together with the most trashy, tramp and away you went

Shocking to me that I could be so wrong, I really believed in you
For you I had done it all, given you my all, what else could I do
I let you go, I let you go peacefully so you could go with her
You wanted her for yourself and of this you were so sure

Sure enough to hurt me, sure enough to kill what we had made
You chose her to brighten your future and to help our memories fade
I sure hope you are very happy and this is how you wanted to live
Killing my spirit in a selfish way, hurtful and evil I cannot forgive

I have become a new person, grown strong from the bad memories
You must never try to talk to me about our past together please
I have gone on, went forward into my new day and life
You may keep and have the drunk, stupid, trash you call a wife

Not for me, I do have love and strength, magic for me is waiting
Have her for yourself, you may remain and live to be forever hating