A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

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.

No comments: