
I thought when we arrived we’d want to stay for good
Although it’s true I couldn’t see a reason why we should
It’s not like we belong at all to this or any place
We’re passing through this time, a visit just in haste
The foreshore, the lighthouse, the rocks above the sea
The place with all its memories of how we thought to be
Our lives together for all time, joined as one in heart
But now we’ve come to separate, our lives are pulled apart
We took a vow to stay so true to all our values then
But life got in the way somehow and values couldn’t mend
The mess we caused, the pain and hurt to others and to us
Was just too much; outweighed what once was honesty, and trust
We didn’t mean for it to end but somehow lost our way
The things we thought we wanted, we let them slip away
We took each other lives and hearts and broke them into bits
Not caring why we did it, yet it’s something we can’t fix.
Here we stand beside the home we thought was ours for life
You to be my husband, me to be your wife
Sharing out the things we bought to make the house a home
Boxes filled with this and that and labelled Ben and Joan
We part as friends, at least I hope that’s how you feel as well
The arguments, the fighting, not living but sheer hell.
It’s over now, we start again to carve a different life
But you will always be my first and I your sometime wife.
Copyright Tessa Thomson 2019