So you tell me you’re leaving, wow what can I say. I heard you say that so many times before and yet you are still here. Is it true now what I hear? Stop fussing and get it over with, take your things and leave, please.

Maybe just maybe I’ll shed a few tears not because I’m angry, sad or afraid to become an emotional wreck but because it’s about time you kept your word. Make an about face and go leave this place you are taking up too much of my space.

It’s true a long time ago I fell in love with you the unselfish young man that would do anything to make me happy, so go ahead walk out that door with your selfish ways I don’t love you like before.

I’ll sit here and remember all the times we spent together good or bad, happy or sad but, we spent them together, nowadays we have to make appointments in our schedule agendas just to ask each other or tell each other what the grandkids need or how they are doing. So leave, please leave since you’re saying you’re leaving with such a lame explanation, wow, what consideration!

Kids are grown, now I could explain about this so called happy home. I hated the fact that you left us alone to entertain your elite group of friends at the bowling or pool hall. Took your girlfriend to the softball games, showered her with gifts, dozens of flowers, while we sat here waiting for my friends and family to come over so the kids could have something to eat.

You walked around with the best of everything while we had nothing. You make me stronger and stronger every time I stir those memories in my mind and become elated to know those years are all left behind.

Oh and lets discuss picture day, where were you? Since it’s so hard for you to say it let me do it for you, you were in another school praising someone else’s child. Shame on you! pictures of you with another child that wasn’t related to you. The school plays came and went and so did the holidays, with you nowhere to be found.

While you were saying grace over a turkey we were thanking God for another day in front of a ham. You now come home with a empty suitcase in hand and expect to fill it with the things I brought with my welfare check, I don’t think so!

So you see if you want to leave please do, I can’t wait to tell my friends I go rid of you. They’ll laugh like they always do after I tell them of the stories of me and him.

Yes him, don’t look shock. How do you think I survived with my looks alone. Get a life I already did and so did my kids. Twenty odd years I gave you my all, it’s time to call it quits Mr. Whatever you think. Wait, we never needed you, so this tear I fear is not from losing you but for finding myself.