When A Man Loves A Woman
A review in Poetry
By Annette Starnes
In Anguish she watches the images in her mind
As they repeat over and over again
All of the times she has let herself and her family down
By not being able to stop herself from what she has become.
Four o'clock in the morning and she says to herself
I can't do this as she takes a big swig out of her vodka bottle
I'll quit tomorrow, as she takes another swallow.
I promise to slow down, to her husband on their vacation.
But she knows deep down that tomorrow never comes
And the pictures in her head keep racing ever faster.
Of the time she lost her little girl and didn't know where to find her
Or the time she slapped her for not doing what she had already done
Of not being there to say goodnight because the time just got away from her
Or not making breakfast because she was too hung over to get out of bed.
Tomorrow I'll be a better Mommy to my little girls who love me
But she knows deep down that tomorrow never comes.
She vows in the hospital after one drink waaay too many
That this time tomorrow will come.
And she finally does something she thought she would never need to do
And she puts her life in someone else's hands.
For a while she wishes she were drunk.
Then for a while she wished she were dead
And then she wishes she were someone else, anyone else
And always she wishes she was home.
But eventually it gets easier to just take it day by day.
Until finally she is home, where it isn't easier but necessary.
Where she has to find a new way to live without the bottle
And for a while without her husband.
Ant then finally tomorrow has come, after 184 days.
It's still a hard battle she must wage every day
But her little girls have learned who mommy really is
And she has learned how much love really means in all senses.
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