That Terrible Day
Scottie Allman © 2009

When I finally slept last night
I went instantly to dreams
Each one like the other
Was about you and me
They were wonderful and relaxing
As all dreams should be
They showed a life together
With the two of us as one.

But then I woke in the morning
To have those dreams shattered
By the reality of our dreadful meeting today
To meet with a lawyer
Who will bring us one step closer
To a life we’ve not known for years
A life apart and without the other
A life on our own
Without someone that has loved us
With our faults and all
No matter what went wrong.

And then it came
The moment I hoped would not come
We sat in a room so cold and impersonal
A long shiny table separated us two
And a short plump girl
She has seen it all before
Her businesslike attitude
Bore into me with a precise pain
That reached into my soul
Our lives and hearts were tossed about
As she shuffled the papers about
My heart broke further into pieces
As she went on about the business of ending us.
With each page that I read without reading
I felt my world collapse
Bit by bit
We are closer than ever to the day that I dread.

Moving on to the talking couch
That you promised me to just once
I heard again what you have said.
You no longer want me in your life
You’ve tried too long and too hard in your head
And no longer can you go on
I push to hard and it makes things worse
Every time I do
Only makes creates a stress
That drives you another step away from me
I’ve said that I would do anything
To help you ease your pain
So the distance that you ask for
Though so hard, is what I’ll give
In hopes that one day again
Together we will live.