DECLARATION
(written 1/4/03)
I am leaving him
Today, at 4 o’clock,
I am leaving
I have packed my green suitcase
and I am leaving
I am lucky
I am not a battered wife,
A misfit mistress
Or a kept woman
I am not any of those things you might think
But, I am leaving
And I am leaving the deepest vacancy I can imagine
I am leaving the ice cold hands that touch me
And the hollow eyes that look past me
I am leaving the routine pleasantries
The choreographed gifts
The memorized replies
The tick---tock of a life that has strangled me
He is not a bad man
Not mean or cruel or sinister
He is simply
Indifferent
I am leaving for a warm hand,
A spontaneous smile
And eyes that will make me shiver from delight,
Anticipation
I am leaving
To laugh and love again
Today
At 4 o’clock
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4 comments:
Ooooh, close to home.
It's about 2:30 at my house
1998 6:00 p.m. even afterwards, not nearly this eloquent.
There wasn't a time, but there was a date, July 4th, so symbolic.
ironic...there wasn't a time, but i could hear the time winding down and everything becoming more and more unbearable.
i had almost forgotten.
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