I remember when you told me the news                I know that there is no turning back

It’s only an option I can’t refuse

You were straight faced with nothing less             the words have no meaning

Like a picture taken without a photo lens              and I will have to deal with the punishment

Please promise me you won’t die

Even if the promise was a lie                                    for our lies and the words that have failed

I cross my heart and hope to die there are some things that we

can never tell the truth about

I knew the truth couldn’t be true

I knew how to be special for you

we can’t go on the way we were

I knew that you could not be her                              what would you do then

to stick a needle in my eye

The genetics of love had changed                             the collapse of the concrete

the catalysts of DNA rearranged                              and mystery of what could happen

Couplets and triplets skipping across my poems

I’ve failed but failure is a part of my home             I’m afraid that there is no way to ever let go

darkness masquerading as the light

Please promise me you won’t die

Even if the promise was a lie                                       absence fills the lack of space

I cross my heart and hope to die there are worse things than

a needle in our eyes

I could connect with her and temptation

are you even that person that I’ve known

now scars are the cross that go across your heart

your lies, my time, the facts, and charts                        the pinpoint of a moment

No matter how hard it gets

with our moments and regrets                                that we could never return from

I had a dream that my feelings had changed

I told you and you knew and felt the same

Please promise me you won’t die                                 there are worse things than a

Even if the promise was a lie

I cross my heart and hope to die broken promise

Promise me that you will never hope to die

Even if your promise is a lie

I cross my heart and hope to die when lies are all that we have

Tags: Being a successful failure, broken meter, Brokeness, Cancer, darkness, Failed Poem, Failing Poems, Hope, Poems, Punishment

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