The tearing accelerates in
Adolescence and adulthood
As we discard our innocence,
Days of long little league games
Of recess and playmates
And lazy bike rides
Are relegated to the dwindling rivers of memory,
Replaced by commitments and committees
By all manner of minutia
Tearing our spontaneous spirits–
Leaving moments and memories,
Shards of our shared illusions
Strewn on on the threshing floor
In middle age we are split
By the slashing and scratching
Of marriage and children
Fumbling our way
Through forays
Of pointless arguments
Laced with insidious invectives
We simultaneously relish and regret;
In consoling and compromise
We cut our egos and ambitions asunder
Letting them float into the ether
Like a cloud of soft and hazy promises . . .
This is the second segment of a lengthy poem titled “Torn.”
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