I promise you tomorrow won't be as bad as yesterday and today will get easier to handle. The nightmares will pass my child, or at least get easier to forget. The special medicine I take? It's an adult drink, it makes the pain fade and the memories blur, it makes it easier to get up because it makes me forget the past. I'm sorry if I disappear into my world sometimes, some images paralyze me or trigger me to remember. My brain once lured me into a false sense of security but only for a moment and it crushed my sanity once more.
I promise one day you will understand my suffering, why I don't sleep at night, why my blank stares are riddled with mistakes,why my smiles are emptier than my aspirations, why my laugh echos the remnants of a future that was never lived and why I can't always look at you without a tear escaping.
I promise you your life will be joyful, you will never feel the pain I had to endure, you will always see light, darkness will not exist as long as I breathe.
I promise tomorrow is brighter than yesterday and today will soon be over but for now close your eyes and go into your happy place. I will keep the demons away whilst you are in my arms, that I promise child.
