Love Poem #2 Comments

Last night you told me that I was smothering you. This pains me deeply for I know it is truth. It reminds me of a time I smothered my ex-wife. I smothered her with whiskey breath and neglect. You know this story all too well don’t you? ..For many years she prayed for me to change. Finally a day came when she just prayed to be free from me. I don’t miss her nor do I ever want her back, but what hurts me the most is that I was oblivious of my actions. I told myself that I would never let my soul get lost again, …never get caught up with the tormenting demons of the night. So I put down the bottle and looked toward a new way of living. I sent prayer after prayer away to a God of my understanding. I asked him for a second chance, but actually he had given me many many second chances in my life.

Sometime before the end of the year 2007, I promised God and myself that I would never be so blind to a woman’s love again; bargaining that if God would only place that perfect woman into my life, that I would love her like I have never loved before, treating her with respect and dignity, and always putting her before myself.
I prayed this woman would be my best friend and perfect lover, my wife and my soul mate…
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