Promises


I had saved a few
endeavors for you
The ones
I had held close,
planning to let dreams brew

Placed midway between
often and someday
Leaving words lingering
before fanciful thoughts
could put
mind to disarray

Some notions
I believed to be
true
And some stories
that contorted the view

The word was out and
only
dissipation would hold
the real cue
Mortality became my sin
and impermanence
was my time frame
to sort the stew

Promises, I realize
bring as much as they
take
and yet
yield more than
ligatured
the affirmation silence brings
the summation of preface
and peroration

Hanging ceilings
that echo
wouldn't ever get to
voice it through
what I promise
would remain
and dissolve with you ..

The promises enslave
the heart
and the mind rescinds ..

The altercation is
hard to bind ..
The feeling of losing
what you couldn't
ever find

I still promise
to keep up
on the way ..
To look after
what began
and search where
the essence bustled away

My promises are
my demur,
that capacitate me
to you each day ..