When you see your parents fight
Your mom on her knees
Your dad begging please

When you hear your parents fight
As you sit on the chair,
Faintly hearing their cries of despair

"I don't deserve this."
Does anyone do?

You sit across your father
Listen to the story, his side
You go to your mother
Her clothes packed, she's made up her mind

Turmoil stirs inside you
If this can happen to them,
Will it certainly happen to me?

Will I make my children cry?
Bucketful tears, their eyes turn dry
Will my husband fell defeated, lost his cause
Hopeless and defeated?

OR

Could it be

My children seeing clearly
The lack of tears on my face
Again, silently hoping
This is just another phase

Will I see my husband go out
To his car? Drive away
to the sunset, with him
Half my heart.

When you see your parents fight
Both of them on opposite sides
And you struggle to see
Which to go find

You go to your mother
Plead for a second chance
"Don't leave, please stay."
But she's decided so there's nothing to say.

Your dad holds you close
The Lord will fix this,
Just you wait and see."
I, waiting 'til we'll be happy

When you hear your parents fight
No, you don't hear
Don't know how to feel
with the silence, fill
the missing words

You go up to your room
And write this poem
Because there's nothing you can do
When your parents fight
For at the same time, you, too
Want to take flight