Viscous Circle

These lies you have told, I know are untrue,
Am I stupid, or do you think I can't read you?

Shattered pieces of future and past,
Why can't you see that this can't last?

You say this time it's your fault, that this time you are to
blame,
But in your eyes I saw the fear, and it looks all the same.

A deaf woman in a bar once told us the same line,
She looked scared, even though she told us she was fine.

We talked of the fear we felt for her, but even so we let her go
by,
And now, My Friend, I have seen that same look in your eyes!

Should I ignore it, mind my own yard, let you walk on through?
I'm Sorry! I can't, even if it means I may lose you.

I know you love him and you feel the bad under weighs the good,
But it's the bad I'm worried about, as I think you should!

It's gone to far this time and if you continue, it'll go further
still!
Why can't you see, you can't change him, and you never will!

You gripe your mother put up with this for years....
Where are your shoes now my friend, buried in tears?

Bruised feelings, a little bruised bones, will there be more?
When will it stop.....with the police knocking at your mothers'
door?

Maybe you think I'm being extreme...that I don't understand at
all.
But, My Friend, I try to do the best I can and I'm worried he's going
to make you fall.

Everyday and night I pray that there are no sounds,
I'm scared one day there will be nothing of you around.

How can I make you, My Friend, ever see,
That this isn't the way love is supposed to be!

Temper you may have, but even so you can't take all the blame,
Violence is not the answer, and you both treat it like a game.

Walking around like nothing was ever done,
Acting as if it never happened, like it was all in fun.

Since you've met him...O'the things you have done.... the lies you have
told,
Yet when it happens again you both act as if it's all rosy and
gold.

You lie to me as if I were a stranger on the street,
It's a Viscous Circle wrapped up all nice and neat.

I Love You, as I always will, I'm upset, angry, worried, and
scared.
I am hurt that you told me yet another lie, and I don't understand
that, after all that we have shared.

From Mother to Daughter to Granddaughters, it is bound to repeat.
Do you want your baby girls to walk that same street?

If you can't put yourself first...then think of your children and what
they deserve.
Friend, I know that you can make a change, take that drastic
curve.

I just don't want you to become one of those women whose feelings have
gone eternally numb.
You're beautiful inside and out; you are more than this violence is
letting you become.

I fear there is nothing more I can say,
You have chosen to have this part of your life stay this way.

I've said my peace; I Love you still,
Just know that I always will!

If it happens again, and it will by and by....
I'm still your friend.....but I'm not going to lie!

I'm not going to sit idly by and watch piece by piece as your spirit
disappears.
I'm going to fight for you with my words, and I'll be here for your
tears.

Hopefully.... you'll one day discover...that violence isn't the way
love is supposed to be.
Then one day you will know.....That you, yourself, are truly
FREE!!!!!

Copyright ?2001 Timber McCall