Wounds are deep,
everyone is scarred.
Husband, wife, kids; all punched with a sad reality.

Separation from loved ones,
words said and endured and recalled, they sting unabashedly.

Some are lucky - the amicable ones,
for others the journey holds more pain.

Were lessons learned?
Or will a new endeavor reap similar results?

The children ache for a parent,
the loss indescribable, it will affect for life.
Perhaps even result in their own failed attempts
as they live a life modeled to them.

Hope for consciousness, this is the key.
Remain unconscious and wallow forever
in the muck and mire of unhappy couplings.
Examine the past and heal.
Life is a lesson.

Rejoice on your journey --
Pain is great, but can be overcome.

-Starlene D. Stewart
February 24, 1994

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