Divorce It’s amazing How a divorce Can haunt your mind If you left it When you thought It was the right thing To do, but wasn’t Exactly sure, And then realized Too late that You were wrong. And the songs you Hear are so sad Thinking of how You wish it could Be like it was In the beginning. When you were So crazy for each other. To smother Her with your heart And see a life together. The promises you made And the thoughts it might Last forever. And then gradually that All fades and erodes And in the difficult moments Your will to see things through The storms Yields to the idea that being Separate will solve the problems. For some it might. But for others it hollows you As you meet new persons And realize, I can’t find anyone who Thrilled me like my Wife.   You don’t even try to Do it on purpose but She appears like a ghost To remind you of what You had. And at some point you ask Yourself if your wife might Really be the one great Chance you had at it. For happiness. For love. Forever. And now it’s gone. And you can’t get it back. And it gnaws And saps Your being. Your psyche forever Damaged. By comparisons To what you had and lost. And might never find Again. No matter how open to it You are. The star doesn’t Always shine twice. And you ask yourself How will I ever get Over this? I haven’t yet Heard the answer. Poem by Michael Juchnowski