Take Back your Promises

You've changed my own features, made me live your lie, now take back all those promises you once made, and let me find myself.

Take Back your Promises


Alone in the stillness of the night

Staring at my face gazing back at me

Through the mirror… through the hazy light

I see a shadow of the woman I used to be…

I watch the wasted days of my life

Shoving off in my own eyes

Cold memories cut like a knife

As sharp as your chilling lies...

My love relentlessly misused

Fading in the grayness of your apathy

My dreams savagely abused

Shrilling… wailing for empathy

There are no more chances I want to take

No more oceans for us to sail

Making me believe anything was my mistake

My fault when anything should fail

There are no more roads for us to walk

No prospect for us to succeed

My heart you willfully broke

A miracle is what we’ll need

I won’t drown in my illusions anymore

Time has come to see the plain truth

Thinking it could ever be like before

Is wasting away my life and youth

You’ve put me on the run for quite so long 

Living in your deceiving delusion

Swaying in those foggy places amid right and wrong

I’ve reached nothing but loss and confusion

Astray… rolling in your circle in the sand

I’m always back to the point of start

I won’t search for reasons to understand

Why we are ending so far apart

You left me nothing but a heartache

And a heap of dreams thrown aside

So take back all the promises you’re yet to make

And give me back my wounded pride… ©

ღ MiRa ღ

Author's Note

Reviews

[KAin]

Strong work, emotion brilliantly expressed in this piece. Heartfelt words, that demand an honest reading of it, as well as an earnest understanding.
You've maintained your rhyme scheme well without losing the meaning in your message - sometimes that is a flaw among the writers of this site - so well done on managing to maintain the thread and power of your message throughout.
It has the feeling of a pride that has begun to remember itself, and to recognize that it deserved more than what it got.
Well written, Mira. Keep up the good work.

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you as usual your review is deep and filled with constructive positivity .. thank you

[melissa]

This is amazing poem keep up the great work i hope you get all of your poems published

[Mira ThePoetess]

wow .. thanks Melissa .. appreciate it really :D

[melissa]

You're welcome

[Simran Kewlani]

I love the 2nd paragraph. Its amazing. Keep it up. (:

[Mira ThePoetess]

thank you Simran... glad you liked it

[Saddam]

You left me nothing but a heartache
And a heap of dreams thrown aside.

Sad sorrowful but well crafted......

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thanks SSADD ... for reading and reviewing ..

[Saddam]

My pleasure dear...... A Good art may be praised....

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thanks ... I will go read yours as well :D

[Saddam]

You are most welcome dear....

[SallyDM]

Oh this made me cry, it's as if you're speaking for me. So very beautiful and so uncannily true. An amazing and emotional write, love it.

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you Sally for your lovely review ... what comes from the heart can easily be felt by whoever went through anything like it ....

[Einstein Noodle]

i am ashamed to be a man .. this happens over and over .. we are not nice to say the least .. this is a terrible pain .. deception, and betrayal ... no wonder the angels lament ... so sorry for you to go through this experience .. i feel deeply sad ..
E.

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you for reading me Einstein Noodle, not all men are alike of course .. but if deception and disappointment only eave us with a sorrowful bitterness, then life somehow changes its taste and colors in our eyes ... thank you for taking the time to even feel anything for my writing ..

[Cory Barrett]

Spell binding. My being is twisted with the pain of the speakers lost time, lost life, lost hope. I find my self wanting to pull this person away from the life they are caught up in. Great read, thank you for your writing. Thanks to Tate Morgan for the request.

[Mira ThePoetess]

I myself thank Tate Morgan for all the help he's given me so far, he is an amazing friend and introduced me to such wonderful people such as yourself Streamline .. thank you for reading me. you said it .. lost time, lost life, lost hope. you got it all right. But we still have a smile somewhere to enlighten our souls when we meet wonderful people along our path.

[A Soap Mess Stories]

I loved this...It describe me 15-year marriage to the core...thanks for sharing...and thanks to Tate Morgan for sending this to me...

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you for reading me .. it's a pleasure to meet Tate's friends ... thankful to him as well.

[Avinash]

Poignant, Melancholic and breathtaking beauty inside your words. A true beauty.

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you so much Avinash ... beauty only comes from within to meet your perception of things according to the beauty in your soul .. Thank you again

[wordman]

so just kiss and say goodbye tomorrow will bring sun shine the poem was great

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you ... I guess we should always keep hoping

[Mark]

Learning can be so painful, and so often the lessons can be tar babies. These lines tell a lot:

"Thinking it could ever be like before
Is wasting away my life and youth"

The realization can be the lifting of the Earth from our shoulders. To be free starts with these two lines. Nicely done.

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you Mark .. it's a pleasure to read your review .. :)