Not just pieces of paper .

Size 10 nineteen years full of dreams stuffed in her tight blue jeans . Open heart and mind laughter filled eyes . Life in the palm of her hand . Twenty years later and on holding on for hope after a bitter divorce and two children who love their mother and father just the same and they want everything to remain just as it was but break up has other plans . It can’t go back neither can she or him they lost each other long before. She prays for strength he disputes the CSA payments and financial strain is fracturing the peace and the inherent obligations of an old love .It’s not just pieces of paper . It lives on in a boy and girl know as a son and daughter who are on the cusp of trying to navigate their own way amongst the residue of fractured hearts which erases the makeup of true love . Yet they still reach out her for lipstick bright red colours her with courage and him for his cologne a fresh light lingering scent that’s full of promise.