Getting Out

Getting Out
Cleopatra Mathis

This poem was fairly easy to identify with, because this type of situation, being a couple going there separate ways, is a rather known situation these days. The imagery used in the poem easily depicts this splitting. Furthermore, the images help to show the multiple emotions felt by the speaker during this time. The phrase "heaving words like furniture" shows the anger of the couple. "Exhausted, we gave up" shows the tired and saddened couple. The last three lines show that the couple was not the normal couple that were happy to finally be going their separate ways. Instead, they were sad to be going apart. They saw that just their love was not enough to keep them together. The couple truly did love each other, but that wasn't enough to keep them together. She still has feelings for her ex-lover, but knows that they tried. Though it is sad to look back on, what happened was for the best.