Promise Poem by Aurora Wells

The night before Christmas
I woke up to voices
Got out of bed and peeped around the stairs
Heard my family, again with bad choices

Father is drunk
Mother is crying
Brother and sisters
All talking about dying

I am only a kid
What do I know
They ruined another season
And killing me in tow

But what was the reason?

I sat on the step
And as I cried
I wiped my tears and
Started to sing “Silent Night”

Looking back now, there were many times like these
Everyone yelling and screaming
Not often did you hear a thank you or please
Such hate and rage in one family unit
I am sorry to say I will be the first to ruin it

I will not do this to my kids
Will not teach them the horrors you did
They will not drink, they will not try
To pop those pills like you nor I

Instead they will grow
Like normal kids do
They will be happy and strive
For the things they wish to

They won’t cry all the time
and say they want to die
They will instead be kids
and not know my little white lie.