You see, I have been writing. I’ve actually been working on this piece for a few weeks. It was inspired by just one more of those crimes of passion murder-suicides in the newspaper, as well as a situation I recall hearing about on one of my life’s fringes, the players and details of which I no longer remember.
I wrote the first two stanzas, and I stalled, because I felt it wanting to get long, which I didn’t want. Well, I got what I wanted, and you get stuck with the harsh ending. Take comfort in this: reading about it wasn’t nearly as harsh as living it had to have been.
This is just my imagination of what drives some people to these extremes.
Be well, peeps, and wwlcome to some darkness.
***
Upon Parting
The bond that had existed was broken.
the path they had walked lay behind.
As they parted there was a sadness not spoken,
behind the relief and the ease of their minds.
They had tried with all might just to make it,
both vowing to never let go
but had gotten to when they could
no longer fake it,
and their days
were bathed in the woe.
They had built their something on nothing,
lives filled with unsustainable things;
they had chased every fad and fancy
and reaped all of the nothing they bring.
He ended it all in a mall parking lot,
with two in her face and one in his brain, and the pile of trinkets and baubles they’d built
was all the nothing that remained.
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I am a West Virginia writer relocated to Pennsylvania. My wife, Becky, and I are raising two wonderful boys, Finnegan, ten, and Simon, six.
Dear friends,
Welcome to our website.
I am a Christian and a bartender. An alcoholic in recovery and a passionate lover of music, my writing reflects these things.
I began writing regularly in the early to mid-90s, and I have worked toward being a full-time freelance writer since then. During my time as a bartender, I did go back to school, obtaining a BA from West Virginia State University, graduating Magna, learning a second language, publishing, and editing.
Since then, it has been more writing toward the freelance goal. I'm making some headway too; I'm writing financial technology (fintech) analysis for Lending Times and about to expand that role with the company's forthcoming publication, Blockchain Times. This has brought a new flavor to my thoughts, and don't be surprised when you come upon something about blockchain tech, Ethereum, or bitcoin among these pages.
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Paul Keenan
Orrtanna, PA
1/23/2018
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