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Overwhelmed
Poems
Mar 2011
never make a promise
never make a promise
never tell someone you
always will
never say you won’t
do it again
never look into their eyes
to make sure they know
never make a promise,
I promise you,
you’ll break it
because:
that’s what they’re for
promises
“for breaking
and destroying
and nothing
else”
as the instructions go/
learn from the label:
never make a promise
to your mother,
your brother,
your lover,
your co-worker
never commit to
stopping an addiction,
keeping up a love,
or being something
or not something
forever
never make a promise,
never ever
do.
there’s enough pain
in this world
for promises to
die out
so I beg of you
tell your children
tell your friends
tell your family
tell your church
never make a promise
most especially to
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