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Jana Tovey
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since 2000-05-30
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0 posted 2000-05-31 09:57 AM


Did the world become too much for you,
so you just took to your bed?
And when you had to crawl out from it
did the drugs reduce your dread?
Did you forget that you had children
who might miss their dear old dad?
Or was opting out of  fatherhood
just part of the deal, forced off on us...
unsigned and never read?

Did you know our sons used to miss you?
They wrote you long letters, about school
and all the things they’d done that year.
They gave up, felt like fools...
when you failed to write them back.
They struggled...had some problems,
dealing with rejection left them hollow
and dejected...one dropped by the wayside,
but the youngest has recovered...he’s doing well.

You may say that these odds are as expected
in situations like these where children are rejected,
but I am appalled that one’s offspring
can be so easily written off,
substituted with a weed, and a smokey haze,
like some old possession that they outgrew,
not quite people, expendable and forgotten,
replaced with a semi-therapeutic haze,
the drug must surely dull the pain - or can’t you feel?

This is no isolated incident, I fear.
Abandonment is getting quite severe.
Bands like EverClear lament the growing trend,
as families split up and no one tidies up the ends.
Lost children, wondering what they did wrong,
as daddies turn their backs for whatever beckons
throwing the past away casually,
and never looking back...until it’s too late...
And, sometimes, just never looking back at all.

Now a third world country exists within great nations
and the citizens are ex-wives and their hapless children.
Who will come and right this wrong?
Not these men, for they would have to look too long
at scenes that they contributed to, or created...
Are women fools who can’t spot a faithless scoundrel?
Will we continue to marry without insuring
that we have the education to take care of our own...
just in case we become a citizen of the new third world?

The moral to my fable isn’t hidden,
or wrapped up in recriminations, or touted in song...
Just remember to be strong and educated
so that you can stand up and be counted
when the man that you depended on gets the...
seven year itch, or the mid-life crisis,
or just decides the family thing is just too much
for his gentle soul to carry through life...
be ready to be an indomitable ex-wife!!!

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