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

[A. Amos]

My friend Tate directed me to your poem, a big thanks to him...

This piece is a magnun-opus, a lost codex found after centuries...I truly admire your skill and wish you all the best in this magical world of words. Simply splendid!

[Mira ThePoetess]

Wow .... ! Thank you A. Amos .. don't know what to say ....

[A. Amos]

You're most welcome

[Taylor_McCutcheon]

Sad that its relatable. Great poem.

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you so much for reading

[Taylor_McCutcheon]

No problem

[yash]

It reflects nothing but pain and sadness, and a binding rhyming touch along with a rebellious outlook, and you know what, i wrote a poem which also started with the same words as yours, but different theme. All and all, i love it really.

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you Yash .... would love to read yours as well .... appreciate your comment and time to read me ..

[Coyote Poetry]

"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"
When we learn the truth. The heart and hope is last to grasp. A powerful poem with a realistic ending. Thank you for sharing the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[Mira ThePoetess]

Thank you so much Coyote Poetry ... appreciate you taking the time to read me