Through the visage of a mist a torrent rain of tears Memories like this never fade even after all these years. Suspended in another time a place so far away Remembering the happy thoughts of what was our wedding day. So many dreams I took with me to the alter of our lives Entwined within the magic of the day I was a bride. But still those dreams were not to be for it soon slipped away And I was left without the love I had on my wedding day. How young and naive I as then I never really knew That life was more about the things we hid in painful truth. For I had never thought I would become a battered wife, Or that you would succumb to that which would control your life. Were we doomed from the start, this I have to ask? Did we know what lay ahead and that it would be so hard? Had we been prepared for it would we have gone the road Or would we have ended as we did, I guess we'll never know. Today I look back on a time that now seems so far away Hard to believe all that has past has now been a decade! While gazing now through broken glass the window of a time Memories come and memories go, for it was another life. I guess I've grown these ten years since I was that blushing bride For many dreams have come and gone while other dreams have died ~ For through the visage of a mist what would have been today Were shattered in the broken glass in shards of yesterday. © Christina 28th January, 2005