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At the first glance it looked like an ordinary English assignment sitting on the Daredevil’s desk. Then I realized that this 13 year old boy who has been struggling with his parents’ divorce, has found a way to open his heart. This is his essay.
“My mom had now been married for 18 years. It seemed like everything was going fine, but my dad just had to spoil it. On September 24th 2005, a couple of weeks before my parents’ anniversary my dad was moved out of the house and into an apartment. They had decided to get a divorce. A few days earlier my mom found out that my dad had a secret admirer. It hit her when she was driving back from food shopping. She was in pain mentally and physically.
Every day my mom would get into arguments with my dad. My dad was though “shy” to admit he had pondered on another woman, and that was how it was until my mom moved him out of the house. My mom and dad were now officially “separated”.
My dream was broken. I always wanted to have the perfect life with two great parents standing there for me, when I got into trouble or when I aced a test. It seemed not from now on. Only one parent would be there for me mainly and the other only sometimes. I realized though my mom had made the right choice for her and us. Things would be much harder now and some days I would cry with tears dripping down enough to fill the Delaware canal. I was in total denial and shock for the next week.
My mom had been fighting for our custody and money. My mom had made the choice to follow my dad around the world wherever the business took him. She had been betrayed and back-stabbed. We were now alone and stranded on an island. Trying to find a way out of this mess, the only hope was to believe that everything would be all right. That is the only way to succeed. Everything started to get better. We were now breaking through!
Just a couple of days ago we got all the home equity. I felt better in my heart and really do believe and feel I’m a much better person. I have gone through a lot in my life, but this is one that would be the hardest for me to overcome, but I know I can do it. We know we had fallen for the magic trick, but we now know it was never real.”
It was so moving listening to Tessa Souter’s sultry and distinctive voice past Friday. I sat on the grand stairway of the Philadelphia Art Museum with a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon in hand, her music deeply penetrating into the very soul of my being. Her jazzy rendition of Sting’s ‘Fragile’ touched my core. I felt mellow and salty tears ran down my cheek. Perhaps it was a hint of the Middle Eastern influence making me feel the deep rhythm in my belly, very pronounced in songs such as ‘Caravan.’ Maybe it was the lyrics, some sad, some touching and all beautiful.
If you are not already a fan, I hope that you discover her latest album ‘Listen Love’, and let her unique voice and her music, reflecting a wide range of influences reach you.
Willow
(Lyrics: Tessa Souter)
What if I became a willow tree
On the banks of you – a wild river
What would you do if I fell into the dark of you
Would that be too deep
And if I touched the very heart of you
Would you let me keep the tender moment
When a part of you loved me too
I’m yearning for a deeper blue
Please let me run away with you to the sea
And if I should let a tender leaf
Go floating over you – a pale green dancer
Would I just sink or would you hold me
While you danced with me
Lead me to the brink of falling deeper
In romance with me
Would you let me drink of you until you were
entranced with me, dance with me
I’m yearning for a deeper blue
Please let me run away with you to the sea
