The Shattered Dream

The Shattered Dream

Three years together of married life
filled with love and laughter
Always believing in your vows
to live happily ever after.

Standing beside her, holding her close
through good times and through bad
Resolving conflict and misunderstandings
when her stubborness made you mad.

Sharing your love and your lives
so happy together it seemed
Until one day a simple question
and she shattered all your dreams.

"Isn't it great to be married?"
you innocently asked one day
She hesitated and stopped to think,
she didn't know what to say.

What's going on, why didn't she say
and what did she hesitate for?
Then with a sentence she shattered you,
"I don't think I love you anymore!"

"My God, my God, what did I do
to make her feel this way?
Why for six months has she pondered,
why did she never say?"

The last seven years of togetherness
flashed before your eyes
The questions you continually asked yourself ~
the whats, the hows, the whys!

The brokenness upon your face
the agony of not knowing why
The thought that she stopped loving you
just made you break down and cry.

The pain you feel, I know it hurts
deep down inside your heart
You never thought that it would end
that you would ever part.

You see her and you can't forget
you still remember when
Your life together, just you and her ~
it all came to an end.

As time has passed you've come to accept
the way that things once were
And though your life is not the same
you could never hate her.

You will always have the memories
of the life you shared together
A place to remain in your heart
is now your friendship for each other.

So now you've gone your separate ways
you have risen above the pain
Drawing on strength and family love
your life can now start again.

Oh sweet love of your youth
she will always be a part
Of the memory of the life you had
now locked within your heart.

"Six months after I left my ex-husband, my brother called in tears telling us that his wife didn't want to be married to him anymore. He was shattered! I can still see the agony in his eyes and loss upon his face. He gave her so much yet she decided that she didn't love him the way she used to, and wanted to go their separate ways. Yet after all she put him through, I remember him telling me not to hate her....but I found that difficult as she had hurt my baby brother, who showed nothing but the sweetest devotion and love any woman could ever want lavished upon her. I wrote this poem to encourage him that there is life beyond divorce. Yet, they never divorced, as she was killed in a car accident June 1998 on her way to work. My brother is now very happily married to a wonderful woman who has given him the family he has so desired. At last his dream has prevailed!"

See "Hearts and Hands ~ Together As One" and "At the End of the Day" for poems I have written for my brother and his lovely wife!