An Ode to My First Wife

You deserved better. The casual cruelty of rigidity of insistence of the Right way. You told me the weight is the feelings No! Deeds not words! we remember how we felt No! Deeds and intentions make it all right! did you leave them feeling light? You told me. and you told me. and you Told me. casual cruelty leavened by good intentions!? the damage remains