Saturday, May 02, 2020

the promise like that

Everyone knows what a promise like that
is worth. So you make it

with gravitas and in deadly
yet living earnest,

a vow. You will bring it true
if it kills you somehow,

and it wins. You convince

they believe in you.

The promise

is not like that.

It's true.

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