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#brokenpromise
I'm mentally torn apart Take a step in my heart Go ahead! peel off all the skin Look at what lies within Behind cute the little sweet things Is an ugly reality tugging at my sanity. Life knows about me It will cover up the ugly So I don't end up in the ward I smile at my life's gifts gleefully Clutching life's sweet rewards Deep into my palm. This is my life A Sugar Coat The more I mask The less I ask Masking up the ugly, makes it so sweet Save your tears, just not this week Another day rolls along She been sick for too long Do my prayers ever get answered? It hurts to watch her struggle through. This is my little life It cuts me like a knife I might've won my little awards But I'm one step closer to the wards Where is he at The one who told me that I am his number one It felt like he wasn't here When the pang of stress was there. This is my life A Sugar Coat The more I mask The less I ask Masking up the ugly, makes it so sweet Save your tears, just not this week Another day rolls along Another broken promise Will he ever care to compromise? It pains me to see him Not care about his and our future.
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Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM UTC
The Sugar Coat
Each breath is a reminder of the regrets living in her body like a cancer… Breathe in… One, Two, Three… Breathe out… Now my mom’s free, Or so she thought. The smoke sends an illusion of peace. The smell of ember burning, getting closer and closer to death’s door as it eats away the cigarettes, While the time ticks slowly. Each moment she lights the lighter, The fire dances, sending chills down her spine… She knows it’s bad— She said to me that she will get better, but she gets bitter each minute she holds the box of cigarettes With the regrets she won’t let go. Breathe in… One, Two, Three… Breathe out… I don’t recognize my mom anymore. I miss the old her. The one who smiles and laughs, Like a kid at a park. Or whenever I cry with the fear of her dying And disappearing, she would hug me close and told me this; “Don’t worry, baby… Mama won’t let go of you.” Now, she clutches a box of cigarettes. Each breath she breathes is a broken promise. The mom I knew is fading in the smoke. The mom I knew is in this photo, But I want the real her. Breathe in… One, Two, Three… Breathe out… Now my mom’s gone from my life.
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Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM UTC
Cigarettes
You swore you'd love me until the end of time But now the end is getting nearer And I still don't even see your face When I look into the mirror What now I see is shadows Cast from shaky lights above Where your little voice cries out "What once was here was love"
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Sep 15, 2024
Sep 15, 2024 at 11:40 PM UTC
Lost
You said we'd spend tomorrow together but you never told me your name I waited a lifetime Tomorrow, never came
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Apr 20, 2023
Apr 20, 2023 at 7:57 AM UTC
tomorrow never came
I have made promises to myself and broke them. How then do expect to have another being make promises to me and keep them? I know the pain, And I've broke the chain. And there is no way to fix it.
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Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2021 at 12:18 PM UTC
Promises
You promised to stay, Woke up not feeling okay. You left far away.
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Jun 21, 2020
Jun 21, 2020 at 12:42 PM UTC
Unforgotten Promise
You promised not to break it The promise that you made Now the shattered pieces are embedded in my hands I held on way too tightly to your promises to me you said you wouldn't break it I guess that must mean that I broke your promise the pieces made me bleed
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Mar 4, 2020
Mar 4, 2020 at 3:33 PM UTC
Broken Promises
Why do you think I'll be quiet this time? All that you said were filthy old lies. I've written a letter, it's addressed to her, The truth that she maybe needs to know? Before making a choice to spend her whole life with you, A person who wished that I was his only truth, How do you guys just turn off all your love? And chose someone who clearly wasn't enough. I'm sick of your lies, you broke your promise, To stay as a friend, you treat me like nonsense. You've made your choice, I want to make mine, To set the truth free, so that I can fly. You had your chance to make the things right, But made it all worse by staying aside, I'm not some trash and you need a lesson, Promises broken can turn really messy. You'll make my life hell, I know that for sure, When that all happens I'll be living no more.
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Oct 27, 2019
Oct 27, 2019 at 6:48 PM UTC
Will the truth set me free?
I sat there waiting for you to get home you came in and grabbed the beer I ran upstairs and locked my door you broke the promise "I will never drink again" I hear you drop the dumb can tears start running down my face I scrambled around my room something that could hold the door closed "a chair!That's it!" I grabbed it and say it in front of the door I looked at the window "Open up" I smashed the window opened and tried letting go I tried to take the step back but then I stepped forward I opened my eyes and there you were by my side I looked at the window still attached not broken just a dumb dream you then opened your eyes I smiled and said "hold me" I then realized you I can never let go you are my home <3
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Jan 24, 2018
Jan 24, 2018 at 2:39 PM UTC
hold me
You don’t deserve these poems You deserve the silence you enforced upon me I write these for me and me only My private refuge. Just me and pain I can’t pinpoint the exact moment it happened The silence. The cold Like a train wreck so mangled it’s impossible to know where it begins and ends I can remember the exact moment I realised Realised you’d gone... again Gone and broken every promise we’d ever made Flung me into darkness
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May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019 at 6:59 AM UTC
Broken promise
A promise is like a sweet wine like a nectar by the ancient Gods, the sweetness to hold on, that warms your heart and lifts you up. A promise to be there for you, a promise you will never walk alone, a promise to stay in touch with you, and yet such promises are like a breeze, said today but gone tomorrow. What once lifted you up is pulling you down, what warmed your heart rips it apart.
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Nov 8, 2017
Nov 8, 2017 at 8:15 AM UTC
A promise
I'm staring at the moon and it reminds me of you. because you said, you love me to the moon and back but what happened? why did you leave? did you honestly, mean those words? or it was just one of your stupid little white lie?
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Mar 29, 2014
Mar 29, 2014 at 3:31 AM UTC
White Lies
Hell, isn't it? Your insides yearning to flee. Don't give me that look, you **** You deluded yourself, not me. Didn't I warn you? Didn't I tell you to stop? But you said you could handle it. You said you'll never tap. But why is this house now empty? Where did the warmth go? I told you it will never be easy. But you opted to start the show. Now you left me with nothing. As you ran yourself to hide. You just proved again what a fool I am. For trusting you sublime.
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 4:19 PM UTC
Ningas Cogon
Giving you my heart was the dumbest move I've made.
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Jul 24, 2015
Jul 24, 2015 at 9:13 PM UTC
Foolish (10W)
Please don't say you'll love me forever, only to console, only to make me smile, We'll only make it linger, and I'll only be naive to believe... and make all my decisions around that premise... And you'll only break my heart, and you'll seem to break your words, because to you it wasn't a promise... only a statement, a spur of the moment... But by all means, please do so in the quietest to your own heart, when I'm not there, where I'm not there Because I don't ever need to hear it, all that matters is that IF, you'll stay... or you'll stray...
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Aug 23, 2014
Aug 23, 2014 at 9:08 PM UTC
What If