Getting Out by Cleopatra Mathis

No matter what the eyes see, the heart is blind. “Getting Out” by Cleopatra Mathis is a poem about the trials and tribulations of a failed marriage. The language and the tone used by the poet describe the range of emotion at the same time the ex-wife is reliving the experience. This poem’s transition occurs when the woman recollects the anger and sadness of her doomed relationship with a man she misses and once …showed first 75 words of 683 total…

…showed last 75 words of 683 total…the woman may feel a longing for her ex-husband, she knows that the best decision was to get out of the relationship before the she began to lose any love she might have remaining for him. She states finally, ”We held on tight, and let go.” The couple tried to desperately have a successful marriage, and hold tight to the love they had, but realized they had to let go for love was not enough.