Love keeps passing by

Innocent and three years old
She does not understand
How complicated life can get
And how divorce is never planned

One day she says she is scared
And does not want us to go home
She is often tempted
To spend the night alone

Other times she says she loves him
As long as he doesn't yell
Sometimes I see her sadness
And it makes me feel like hell

A Mother so confused
Because she is so very young
I don't know if she is searching for sympathy
Or if her sadness has begun

Does she sense my resistance
Due to the distance he portrays
Would she feel more confident
If she was given a bit more praise

Does she know the outcome
If I choose to walk away
And take her from her Daddy
Who sometimes will sit and play

Some nights it is like the WWF
Some nights we live in bliss
If we left our home front tonight
Is there anything she would miss

Or does she often wonder
How happy we would be
If it was only she and I
Living life so easily

Absent of the emotion
Of a grumpy, lonely man
One who makes us feel so bothersome
And unwelcome in his plans

He complains when we are at the office
He complains when we are home
He complains when we are hanging out
And he complains when call him on the phone

But once we pull up in the driveway
He greets us at the door
Then he disappears
It is like we let him do his chore

I think he likes to gripe at us
Because he has nothing much to do
But I really think he is jealous
Of her loving me and me being true

He gets so irritated yet it fills me with ambition
To pack my things and get out of here and find better overall conditions

Now much longer can I stand this
Before I take the upper hand
I refuse to live my entire life
Absent of romancing from a man

He either needs to change his ways
Or he should say goodbye
Because I am tired of watching love
keep on passing by.