Safiya Stewart-Sagoua is a training and development professional and up-and-coming poet in the DC Metro area (Silver Spring MD). She started writing poetry at the age of nine and she has recently completed her first book, Poems of Life and Love From a Simple Black Girl, available at Amazon. When she is not writing you can find her with the love of her life, her son. Visit her blog.

I hoped
By Safiya Stewart-Sagoua

I hoped it would be OK
though suddenly it was hard to breathe.
I had made a promise,
expected to keep my vow.
I hoped it would be OK
but it went from bad to worse.

Now I know.