Promises To Keep

Promise to Keep He Said, “You Have to Promise Me.” So I Promised upon My Life If I Lived Long Enough to Go Home, I’d Be the One to Tell His Wife. His Heart Stopped as I Said Those Words, And I Held Him Close and Cried. He Looked So Young and Peaceful, Dear God, He Shouldn’t Have Died. I Went Home Shortly after That, With this Promise I Intended to Keep. I Had to Tell His Wife Knowing How She Would Weep. I Knocked on the Door of Her House, My Heart Beating with Dread. How Do You Tell Someone, That Her Husband Is Dead? She Took One Look at Me , And Stopped Dead in Her Tracks. “You Don’t Have to Tell Me,” She Said, “I Know He Won’t Be Coming Back. He Came to Me in a Dream, To Say a Final Goodbye, I’ve Known He Was Gone since Then. He Knew He Was Going to Die. Connie Moore 11/2013