The road ahead

I walked through the door into that
Room and you were the first thing I seen,
Sitting there in your purple shirt
Head held high.
You didn't even look my way,
Not once.
And as I held back my own tears
I tried to remind myself to breathe.
The last I heard was that you'd wanted nothing to do with me,
And you made it so obvious that it was true when I walked into that court
Room and you didn't even have the courage to meet my eyes.
I was so angry,
But when I heard you speak and when your voice broke I lost it.
I was crying for five
Maybe ten minutes before I walked out;
Leaving you and everything that
Had anything to do with you behind
In that room.
My knees felt weak and I would have collapsed to the floor had
My friends mom not been holding me up
As I cried in her arms.
Collecting myself I walked to the truck.
And as I watched the court house disappear in the rear view mirror,
I realized that the road ahead for me is so much brighter now that I'm leaving you
Behind