I thought of The Graduate

on my wedding day.

I kept looking back to see

if you were beating on the window

of the church calling my name,

but you weren't.

I knew then for certain that the kind of

impetuous love we'd known

was the stuff of movies,

not the stuff of life.

So I listened for the song.

I walked down the aisle

to reality rather than cinema,

but to this day I shy away from

Dustin Hoffman flicks.

Wasn't sure this day would come

But Daddy said it would

He told me to be patient

And things would turn out good

I miss his hugs and sound advice

And his comforting smile

Cancer took him yesterday

Before he could walk me down the aisle

Very good Cynthia

A Broken Wedding

He did not come, but I carried on,

Like a broken doll I sat all alone.

A brave front we should party anyway,

I was hoping the sadness would go away.

The money it cost did not matter to me,

I did not want to be alone in my grief.

But as I sit here I realize that the pain is real,

And I start my walls untill ice is all I feel.

My heart is gone destroyed by a love gone,

I listen to the whispers and the pitying tones.

This was a mistake I should quietly depart,

But I still sit as love deserts my broken heart.

© Cynthia Clark

Everyone else is having a great time

Dancing and singing all in rhyme

But am I sitting here all alone

No one even calls me on my phone

Am I ugly and hard to look at

Do you think that I am fat

Would it hurt for you to stop and say hi

or even wave as you stroll by