In the years of married bliss
there never seemed to be
A time that was more difficult
between you and me ~
Life's new set of challenges
that causes so much strain
Just brings heartache to our lives
where love once reigned.

Though darkness seems to fall upon
this blessed love we share
When words of anger curse and spit
around us everywhere ~
When there doesn't seem to be another
way to make it right
The silence that separates us
we take to bed each night.

Frustration comes between us
as there never seems to be
The time for us to sit and talk
when it's just you and me ~
The loneliness of our own thoughts
and feelings that we bear
Adds to the silent strain and
limited time we share.

Nothing else that we have lived
has brought us so much pain
The differences that we share
we always overcame ~
Instead of hurling angry words
we have one another,
So why do we fight like this
when we should work together?

Anger, hurt and frustration
should never be a part
Of the love that you and I share
deep within our hearts ~
In times like these we should remember
that we have each other
To overcome life's challenges
now until forever.

© Christina
8th August, 2001
 

"I wrote this poem in the midst of the problems we were having with my husband's children or with the Department of Human Services.   Either way, the stresses of of it all seemed to much, and we constantly fought about everything!   It was and still a difficult time....and stressful.   So often we'd take things out on each other when realy we should be sitting down and working on it together.  Sometimes when we really need each other are the times when we really hurt each other, and push one another away."