The day starts as any other

In peace and love alone together

But after one call from his mother

I should have seen it coming.

He fails to look me in the eye

That familiar darkness creeping by

Building up inside of him

I wish I had seen it coming.

All at once disquiet surfaced

Pain and anguish of the past

Intensifying with every word

I should have learned from the last.

He says it's too much to bare

Please honey, let me in

I don't know what you're doing in there

I should have seen it coming.

He needs me but I can't get in

He's trying with the knife again

Now expressionless though he is

I could have seen it coming.

Tears on my face but his is barren

With every worry he is numbing

My strength, my life, clinging on

I promise I will see it coming.