June- 29- 2026
Broken Promises Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Silent One
~ Placed Second~
(My old poem modified to suit the contest) She heard the sound of pigeons overhead Looking up she saw them whirling and gyrating Forming ever emerging patterns in the sky They soared on and on until they became Fading black dots in the blue. Such sights would have sent her to raptures Sometime back...... But now when she sees them She can only think of the years speeding by And the promises broken And her whole life- a fading black dot! Why did he turn his back on her? Why did he break his promise? In her loneliness, demons of doubts Come to plague her and drown her Into a pool of deep sorrow and tears. She is infected with a virus of melancholy She walks with lacerations in her soul Pain consumes her without flame Forever she wages a battle inside To drive out the demons of dejection But she feels as if a sharp knife Is cutting right through her heart And she winces at every chop Though she tries hard to cover her bruises They bleed red and make themselves known. Once with his presence, the darkness Inside her was charged with light He was her sky, her firmament The ascent of her soul in the morning And the bough of her homing at night. But dreams have sorely betrayed her. Now like a stranger she waits at his doorstep, Wondering if he would let her in. Pain has sucked her out In a leaking vessel, she collects her tears To water the parched terrain Of her drought- stricken domain Now she lives in perpetual darkness Fighting with black shadows Day in and day out!
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