Good-bye bitch!

[Tiger the Lion]

Hi all!

I call this "Good-bye bitch!"



My wife's monthly visitor, an unlooked-for aunt, unlooked-for made me stumble too early in the poem. Could she not just be a troublesome aunt?
her time with us now runs very scant.
"Foul witch, what makest thou in our sight?"* Nice!
Leave, begone, meanspirited old wight!

No "change" to be dreaded but a welcome relief Not sure if I like change in quotations, feels like the reader is pushed into understanding its meaning.
from physical pain and spiritual grief.
(God unjust? I won't go down that route
but still, at long last, His "No" is now moot.)

We've long put away the needles and vials
and forlorn, tattered hopes, heaped up in piles.
Two boys we've adopted; ours is the gain.
Therefore, we can, and will, not complain. reads like the negative "not" comes too late. Maybe - Therefore we cannot, and will not complain

Yet my "Good riddance!" will also ring hollow
and be, in one sense, not easy to swallow.
One hope yet I hold, in secret, on the sly,
and as she departs, I must let it die.

Love, oh what a tale we have spun.
On to a new chapter, this one is done,
leaving nothing behind but a wistful regret
to peek through the windows for some time yet. Strong ending, especially the last line.

* Richard III, Act I, Scene III

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Thanks for the posting nb. Good topic. Any suggestions are really just personal preference. Nice write. - Paul