Poetry from Adult
Children of Divorce
The pain adults experience
when their parents divorce is different in some ways from the pain
young children experience, but it's very real. And adult children of divorce
typically don't get any support from the community. This page contains
some of the poetry these victims of divorce have produced. I appreciate
their being willing to share it with you.
This one is from Susan Cherepon, the
informal leader of a support group for adult children of divorce. You can
find her web page at http://www.angelfire.com/sc/GoddessSue/index.html
I once believed in Eternity
My family together for eternity
Mother, Father, Daughter, Daughter
How can I have been so wrong?
Is heaven still going to work now?
Will I still go to heaven with both
my parents?
Or will they still be fighting?
Will I still try to make peace or is
peace essential to eternity?
Maybe the fighting will stop, differences
reconciled.
Will Mom's boyfriend be in my heaven?
What about Dad's girlfriend?
Will I care if they are?
Will I even notice?
In my selfish heaven,
there are 4 people.
My mother, my father, my sister, and
me.
My heaven exists in a blue house on
a dead end street in the middle of the woods.
My heaven has turned out not to exist.
Not on this planet and probably not
on any other.
Why, oh why, can't eternity stretch
backwards?
