Sold! Sold! Sold!

Final Sales Agreement Reached On Property

A final agreement is in hand for the sale of a property me and my ex-wife own in Warren, Pennsylvania. After two weeks of negotiating a price and resolving several side issues, the deal is done with the transfer of money-for-land set for July 31, 2006.

The price was right, although several thousand dollars below market value. After paying off the outstanding mortgage, the ex and me will split a sizeable amount. Considering the current depressed state of home sales locally and nationwide, this went fast, mostly because the buyers and paying cash.

I’ll move on with the two cats to a one-bedroom apartment, which is much easier for me to handle physically.

The Road to New Hope
Almost time for me to leave,
get on the road to new hope.
Turn away the sadness within.
Point my face to the Eastern sun,
Grab the cats, smile, move on.

Adjust mind and body.
Ease the physical burdens,
Quell the emotional distress.
Heal pain, embrace renewal.

Leave this cozy Ivy-covered brick
Once hostel for two living life‘s dream.
Now cloistering one in bitter-sweet memories
Where walls weep with disappointment

Three decades of commitment diminished
Another’s mind set on a quest for Original Happiness.
Vows disregarded, spirit shattered, dreams dead-ended,
Is this earthly fulfillment weighted by an Original Offense?

Civil authorities cut God’s sealed bond
Man’s paper decree official, firm and final?
Reckoning still due in the High Court.
Where Almighty Justice rules everlasting!

The road to new hope offers promise.
Straight ahead toward a brighter horizon?
Pathways for inner peace, enlightenment?
Is the best is just down the road?