My Silent Promise
Written by Torrie DeMore
How do you expect me
to ever know how to love one
as a wife should love her husband
when I have had to be witness
to your never-ending quarrels?
Lord help me if I should happen
to be wed someday,
because I shall be lost,
never knowing what being married
should be like.
I can only pray
my future husband is patient with me
and will show me how to love,
because my own children shall never
suffer the agony of watching their parents
drift apart.
I know that pain all too well
and it will always be a knife in my heart,
a dark cloud hovering over me
wherever I go.
I swear as long as I walk this Earth
my life will not follow the same path
which my mother and father walked upon.