I see what his addiction does to him
I watch as he destroys everything beautiful and good

He is thirty, and sometimes he drinks
I am eighteen, and sometimes I get lonely
We meet at the park

He is charismatic
He is tall and handsome 
He makes me laugh

He invites me to his place
I don't like the taste of beer, I say
More for me then, he says with a smile

I move in with him
My parents have given up on me
He spends his days and nights drinking

He loses his job
He hits me one night while drunk
He would never do this sober, I convince myself

And so it begins, and so it goes

He hits me and tells me this is true love
No one has ever loved me this much

What are you doing, Olivia asks me one day
This is abuse, this is not love
I tell her she does not understand

It is the alcohol, I tell her
He does not do this sober
And it is so true

He takes me to the beach
I look at another man the wrong way
He drives me home immediately in a rage

He slaps me and beats me
There is blood
I hear sirens

I have now seen what his abuse has done to me
I watched as he destroyed something beautiful and good