The night before Christmas <br />I woke up to voices <br />Got out of bed and peeped around the stairs <br />Heard my family, again with bad choices <br /> <br />Father is drunk <br />Mother is crying <br />Brother and sisters <br />All talking about dying <br /> <br />I am only a kid <br />What do I know <br />They ruined another season <br />And killing me in tow <br /> <br />But what was the reason? <br /> <br />I sat on the step <br />And as I cried <br />I wiped my tears and <br />Started to sing “Silent Night” <br /> <br />Looking back now, there were many times like these <br />Everyone yelling and screaming <br />Not often did you hear a thank you or please <br />Such hate and rage in one family unit <br />I am sorry to say I will be the first to ruin it <br /> <br />I will not do this to my kids <br />Will not teach them the horrors you did <br />They will not drink, they will not try <br />To pop those pills like you nor I <br /> <br />Instead they will grow <br />Like normal kids do <br />They will be happy and strive <br />For the things they wish to <br /> <br />They won’t cry all the time <br />and say they want to die <br />They will instead be kids <br />and not know my little white lie.<br /><br />Aurora Wells<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/promise-16/
