"My Ex-Wife"

Your face

Sneering, scowling

Contorted with malice

Hands taloned to attack my face

If I remember you

It is like this

My wife.

My life

Has moved on from

Such sad and spiteful days

I suffered long enough for you

Now I'm free, rejoicing

Lib~er~at~ed

Reborn

I shall

Forgive, but not

For your sake but for mine

Forgiving sets me free, to be

Endlessly so grateful

To be away

From  you

Now you

Cannot hurt me

You cannot hurt our son

We both grow beyond you, away

To replace your hateful

And selfish ways

With hope

And love

Beyond your ken

Feelings that are foreign

To your grim soul lost in darkness

We walk away, relieved

So free of you

At last!

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