Parental Splitting Up

A pantoum about divorce of parents from the child's perspective.

She lays hopeless in her bed.
Emotion finally escaping from inside.
Her grief takes over her head,
A claustrophobia of sorrow builds in her mind.

Emotion finally escaping from inside.
Her mother sits in the rocking chair.
A claustrophobia of sorrow builds in her mind.
The absence is too much to bear.

Her mother sits in the rocking chair,
Saying her annual goodbye.
The absence is too much to bear.
Waiting for this beloved moment to come nigh.

Her grief takes over her head.