Promise? You will still love me 50 years from now? When I have cried more tears, When I have been hurt And my back is stout?
Promise? you will still love me When you've seen all my scars When I am grieving and broken And torn into two?
Promise. You will remember me? And who I am not useful When my hair has turned from gold to gray When the strands fall out and our brittle as rocks in the sand When my skin is wasted and bruised
When I am weak When my eyes can’t see When I am not fruitful When I am not lovely When I don’t look like me? Promise to love me? When I am no longer joyous When the world weighs too much on me and I sit among few?
Promise to love me If I spill you my sins? If I told you my secrets? Would your love fade or dim?
Promise to love me? When I don’t love me? When I’m angry and hurting- When I’m broken and mean.
Promise to love me? When I curse and I swear? When I weep and I punch? And when I don’t care?
Promise to love me? If I left you for gold? For silver and riches? For diamonds or mold? Promise to love me? When I’m mean or unkind? When I’m grieving and broken? And swear at the skies?
Promise to hear me? When I am unheard? If I hated you If I left you If I ran far away? Promise to follow me? When I walk away.
Would you leave me alone? Or sit with me, stay? Promise to love me? When friends have all left. When family is absent And there are no more songs? Promise to love me If you knew all my wrongs?
Promise to love me? So much that it hurts? Promise to see me? When I am blind, naked, and covered in grit and in dirt?
Would you love me? Would you listen? Would you follow me? Forgive me?
Do you promise to love me? The unlovely, the ugly, the broken, the empty? Would you love me? Would you love all of me? If you knew me if you knew me? How would you see me? How would you judge me?
Could you love me? Knowing the hurt? Knowing my envies? Seeing me at my worst? Could you still love me? Would you walk away? Keep it simple: Keep me at bay.
Will you walk with me in my heart ache? Will you carry my burdens When my feet are too heavy? Would you love me in my brokenness? Would you love me when I am dying inside? If I didn’t love me? Would you still see my beauty? Or would you wish to be free.
Do you promise to love If you knew all that I am? Even when, despite, because, and regardless of What I have done Who I’ve been Or what I could become?
Do you promise to love me When the dusk falls and the dawn shines in? Do you promise to love me? Regardless of sin? Do you promise to love me? Even, if, and when.
The Silent Singer 