Diamonds in the wind

Copyright ©2000 by Richard J. Sereday Jr.
All rights reserved

What a lovely ring was my wedding gift from her,
so many beautiful diamonds, and she said.....

"we are through,
I wanted a divorce",

and my heart, it stood still,
and stopped beating then and there.

Fifteen years flashed before my eye,
over and over for days,
the good times, the bad, 
the accomplishments, the mistakes.


And there was the sleep 
that never came,
hoping for the sleep,
to sleep through this 
heavy heavy heart ache. 

But in time the sleep, it did come,
after a multitude of sleepless nights.

And with the sleep 
the night mares did begin.

And there I was walking in a field 
along side a fence of barbed wire,

when my ring I did catch upon that fence,
and it cut me deep, and I jerked away,

and into the wind, the diamonds did fly,
a million tiny little pieces scattered,
and the pieces were our lives together.

Franticly I did chase after these tiny little pieces
but they were too many, and in all directions
did they fly never to be found, in spite of my efforts.

Hopeless was the task, but I tried just the same 
to gather up the broken pieces for repair and restore,
but it was not to be, so screaming I awoke, 
two A.M. it was, never to sleep again that night
and many others to follow.

And I never could pick up 
the pieces of the ring,
and there was no repair
or restore,

but the day came 
that pick up the pieces 
of my life I did. 

Somehow stronger, 
the price we pay for strength, 
 "all to high".