He vowed that he’d love her ‘Till death do they part And all seemed so perfect Back there at the start
Then along came the children Who took his place in her heart He started the drinking And driving her family apart Her life all controlling With her freedom denied Until all that he left was A Mother beguiled
Then came the violence She could no longer pretend And hide all the bruises Away from her friends He swore he still loved her Although he now lied So she was left as A Mother defiled
From his paranoid passion She now lived in fear With a deep down concern for All those she held dear Her self esteem, shattered So that she no longer smiled A broken woman left as A Mother reviled
It’s a tragic story You may have heard it before Would she have courage To walk out the door Or was it her destiny To be thus denied And to remain forever A Mother beguiled.
