My First Husband
I loved that man, but balancing the light and dark got to be too much
Young, when we met, I was only fifteen
You were just now home from the service
handsome, fun, and you were a bit nervous
We were engaged when I was but sixteen
in love and soon married at seventeen
Going to school and worked in foodservice
He drove truck. Thought it was a disservice
to me. We were together for eighteen.
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Two children and too many drugs and drinking
I cried a lot and I couldn't help you
Missing you out in bars, I kept shrinking
My days were long and at night I was blue
Times you were home, I couldn't stop thinking
It wasn't working out so then I flew
About the Creator
Denise E Lindquist
Retired, working part-time as a Native American culture consultant. I have an MSE, and an ABD. I write on Vocal, and Facebook. Poetry, non-fiction mostly, and working on fiction. Wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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