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Times to reminisce
Promises deceased
A new born hope
In its wishful steps
Frolicked to future
No time to rest

Dreams to seek
Promises to keep
Wishes unfulfilled
Uncertainty is a treat

Each day unveils
The calendar’s fate
Charming or tedious
Never to know
A delight,  it can be

Unkept promises
Tug at the heartstrings
Wishes and dreams
Have no expiration dates
Timeless unbound
Like the eternal springs
Jeremy Betts Aug 2024
You'd think I requested these
Soul crushing insecurities
That break me down with ease
Like I selected to have bad news to come in threes
In a world that doesn't care about the word please
Closed a blind eye to the forest and the trees
Can't smell my own $hit on my knees
With an A to B through none traversable seas
The promised paradise is vacant properties
What I have are useless keys
And facts with discrepancies
That leaves a heart at absolute zero,
A deep freeze

©2024
Mrs Timetable Jul 2024
I spoke your language
With you,
I tried,
But meaning was lost
Meaning was everything
And yet became nothing
I can't speak
Your language
Anymore
It's a choice
You made
Long ago
By fracturing
My abilities
To understand
You
Ricardo Mar 2024
Intro:
(soft instrumental)

Verse 1:
It only got harder, I swear to you
Everything I was doing wasn't to hurt you
Sitting on the couch, pulling out my hairs
Wondering when things will change, feeling like it's all in vain
Day after day, asking myself
How much more do I need to change?
I did everything I could, all that I knew how to do
But the arguments never ended well, our hearts pulling us closer
Yet our minds drifting apart, beyond our reach
It was never supposed to be this way
I tried to hold on, but couldn't stay

Chorus:
Those promises
You had me living out promises
Those promises
Were they ever real to you?
It only got harder, I swear to you
Those promises you made
Had me waiting, standing still
Those promises were never real anyway

Verse 2:
Got us the house we both wanted, dreams shattered in the end
The love we once had, couldn't withstand the pain
Why didn't you just walk away?
Instead, chose to stay, repeating the same mistakes
I just don't understand, what more can I do?
To make you see, I don't want you here, I can't go through it all again
It's hard enough for me now, I can't stay

Chorus:
Those promises
You had me living out promises
Those promises
Were they ever real to you?
It only got harder, I swear to you
Those promises you made
Had me waiting, standing still
Those promises were never real anyway

Bridge:
(Instrumental break)

Chorus:
Those promises
You had me living out promises
Those promises
Were they ever real to you?
It only got harder, I swear to you
Those promises you made
Had me waiting, standing still
Those promises were never real anyway

Outro:
(softly fades out)
Past experience with love moved me to write this piece
m Mar 2024
a week ago wednesday
and here we are, here i am,
begging and bruised and
bursting at every touch;
the gentle threat of promises
that are not uttered
but seep in, somehow,
through the sensitive skin of my thighs
and into my bloodstream,
begging to be realized
and i dream of giants and gems on your pillow;
my mouth is consistently
failing me, and the promises hide behind
my teeth as you pry them open
with your tongue--
i melt the confessions into your
bed sheets and close my eyes
to dream
it's been a while since i've dated
David Hilburn Feb 2024
Smile, guarantee
No problem with serendipity...
A local house of music and dance, a sharing means
That has the time, to look and see you will be

A promise on top of a hill
Waiting on the first, to live better
Than causes question, the anger of misery still
But to know a faring friend, in scope and letter...

Sweet, goodness
The favors of proper sunshine
To tell a different story than mercy in legend, do attest
The coming hope we due, to liberty, has the voice of time

Picking the best, the wages of a windy day
To these, there is a lived few, fury in the known
Has begun here, to truthful many and their save
We are cares in the needs of more, than a virtue to lonely, come

Sameness, guidance
Welcome to the home of sense, a heed to collect ours
That has the silence for a moment's reward, to advance
We know you, the measure of simplicity to fend for ideal powers

So tender, so without pain
Of remembered gestures and vexes, that seem to be
The fate of anarchy said, the wishes we tell were all of same
All of shared names and the told season of fame, that is our such's lead
Benevolence, Ambivalence, Deliverance, and shadows of home with a unity of more than strangers to worry
Do you think of me when you look at the moon
When you marvel at it's fullness and beauty,
Do you feel my absence?
Is my memory etched into your soul like you promised it would be?
For eternity?
Poetic Eagle Dec 2023
Once upon a time your words meant everything that held on to them,
Until l saw every promise pass by.
Now, l yearn to believe each word you speak.....
But it all sounds like a poem that caught the right muse.
In the hit of the moment we say so much but with no actions,words slowly lose their meaning
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