Promise

There was you, with a million promises,

Of a lifetime’s worth, all

in the name of love.

But now they speak in whispers

of Your deceit, the Mirage you led me into,

For endless nights in years of darkness.

You trample and savage on

the foregone shadows

and yester’s promises

I kept mine

like you asked,

I remembered,

And reminded you of yours

You promised to remember

But I️ see you haven’t

you walk over

The frail rotten grave that was

Once our promise of the future

The one that holds even if

We didn’t