Divorce

p emDecember 1, 2011/em/p p emimg alt="" src="http://terryjoanbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DeserveTruthSmall.jpg" style="width: 320px; height: 240px;" //em/p p nbsp;/p p A sharp word: Divorcebr / Takes to my Worldbr / A colonial townbr / Games and peacebr / On colonial tiles/p p span data-scayt_word="“Mami”" data-scaytid="3"ldquo;Mamirdquo;/span and Ibr / My auntrsquo;s old penthouse roombr / An oasisbr / A high stone clock/p p Sorrows in tearsbr / Echo from the backbr / Rain on the phonebr / She does not see me listening/p p A slight splinterbr / Begins to crackbr / Down to my feetbr / From my very top/p p ldquo;Divorcerdquo; I hearbr / ldquo;Do not span data-scayt_word="beleive”" data-scaytid="4"beleiverdquo;/spanbr / I tell myselfbr / The word of kids who wouldnrsquo;t play/p p ldquo;Divorcerdquo; I hearbr / My motherrsquo;s voicebr / A rooting fracturebr / Now on the ice/p p Smiles all fallbr / All is darkbr / I sprint to my Motherrsquo;s cold wet lap/p p ldquo;Is it reallyhellip;rdquo;br / ldquo;Divorce Mom?rdquo;br / My voice is crackedbr / ldquo;No, of course not dearrdquo;br / ldquo;Divorce itrsquo;s notrdquo;/p p All a liebr / To protectbr / My motherrsquo;s fearbr / To break my heart/p p If you ask me whybr / I will saybr / We were not wantedbr / For our skinbr / Our color, a shade too dark/p p nbsp;/p p emThis is an Empathy span data-scayt_word="Exercize" data-scaytid="1"Exercize/span for Poverty Journalism 101 at span data-scayt_word="PeopleSkooL" data-scaytid="22"PeopleSkooL/span/em/p