This was written in 2016 while I was going through my divorce that began at the end of 2015. I felt like the agony I was feeling would always be there. 

I long to tie up my feelings with a tidy bow

Tuck them away like old letters in a shoe box

Make new memories as the sad ones fade quickly

But my heart keeps telling me that can never be so

 

Anger bubbles up like an unexpected spring

I watch as it spills onto my good intentions

With no warning it comes like a tornado of pain

Then subsides again and leaves me with nothing

 

Every day I watch in horror as my intentions fail

Try hard as I might it doesn’t seem to matter at all

Daily, I keep putting one foot in front of the other

Never knowing which path to take, which trail

 

I keep praying for God to heal my heart and mind

As I struggle like an angry worm on a rusty hook

Wondering how in the world I got to this terrible place

Still caught up in what was left behind