Broken Promises Poem by Claire Jones

You promised you'd change
Wouldn't hit me anymore
You'd cut out the drinking
You promised me more.

Can't cover more bruises
Or take much more pain
I've told you I love you
Can't you treat me the same?

Smash up the furniture
We'll eat off the floor
Destroy all the photos
I'm sure there'll be more.

Please don't hurt me
Rope marks around my neck
Putting out your cigerettes
On the skin of my chest.

You promised me romance
A life full of fun
But your killing me slowly
Can't you see what you've done?

Why do you whip me
When I haven't been bad
Too drunk this time to hurt me
For that I am glad.

One more time
I'm leaving for good
I promise I'll leave you
If only I could.

'Be a good wife
And don't you complain
Treat him with kindness
And he'll do the same'

So I treated him kindly
But that didn't work
So I killed that motherfucker
And buried him in the dirt.