Love isn't always easy.
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What if you are no longer allowed to laugh or to cry?
What feelings are left to reel?
Do you wear clothes they like even trousers as if a guy?
What if pants have no appeal?
You cook, clean, still hubby complains as he watches T.V.
When will you ever be free?

What do you do when the only one who can make you laugh
is the one who made you cry?
Do you run out of the house when bloodied, scream up a storm?
Do you see him drive off? Sigh?
Are you there in his chair when cops knock at the door? The news
is that you don’t have to choose.

What do you do when the only one who can make you laugh
is the one who made you cry?
Do you hang around, accept the abuse, make your love last?
Who is there to dry your eye?
Everyone wants to change the one that they marry once they’re wed.
One should flee … while they’re ahead.

What do you do when the only one who can make you laugh
is the one who made you cry?
You put up with his foolishness, take medicine for stress
lest you cause others … to die.
You called the authorities but they could make no promises--
you lived on compromises.

You couldn’t say a word, he threatened to die … suicide.
He took the ones you love most?
You dreaded the words that you knew you would hear so steered clear.
Who wants their children as ghosts?
An ounce of prevention could’ve kept this from happening.
You could’ve kept on acting!

What do you do when the only one who can make you laugh
is the one who made you cry?