Divorce Comments

Fine poem that outs a situation many must feel but not fully acknowledge. The metaphor of divorce is dead on.

Do you think the narrator is being quite unrealistic in their expectations of her parents? To me the voice sounds like a teenager, because the reasons for divorce are quite trivial really (smelly breath and not enough Thankyous) . It’s not clear that the parents are shouting at the narrator - to me it is more like the narrator is listening to them fight and wanting to get out to a dream world where parents are not pre-occupied with other things.

Great stuff. Quite a new look at a new situation.

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It represents the legitimate rights of all children. They too deserve to be treated with love and dignity like grown ups. It is primarily the duty of parents to ensure that they get it. Thanks. I would be better off in an orphanage.... I want a divorce. There are parents who.... sing in the colourful voices of rainbows, I don't want to be your child. All you do is shout

If this is autobiographical I feel sad for the author, nobody deserves to be brought up by bad parents.

In this day and age! Divorce. This is also part of life. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.