Chris~
I'm not going to e-mail you anymore because I respect your wishes. But after reading your latest submission, I felt compelled to express something to you. My first reaction after reading the poem was,"That's tacky. He's trashing me in that poem, and he knows I still read and post here at the Board." We had closure and I am grateful for that. But since the divorce there are lines I have not crossed here and in that poem you crossed them. I am glad you have found a woman who has a job, friends, a full life and who is so emotionally together that she does not cry. I have told my family that I believe you will marry Belinda and I am very happy for you. You deserve a healthy relationship, finally. I am not jealous and I am not envious or bitter. I stopped loving you as a mate a long time ago. I just think it shows a lack of class and respect submitting poems that compare your current "goddess" to me and showing how much I suffer in comparison. But you know what? All those times I submitted poems that hurt you I told you in defense that the poems write themselves and I cannot and will not edit my poems to please anyone else. So you write your poems and I will write mine. I will no longer worry about hurting you. I don't think I have that power any longer, anyway. Bob Dylan has made millions of dollars out of trashing his former lovers and spouses in songs. He's just better at it than we are.