David William Breidenthal Poet Free verse

promises promises

Promises fade
Just like a jade
In the ocean waves
It surely saves…
My lonely soul tonight

Broken pride
Again, you lied
In the ocean waves
It surely saves…
The spirit of might

Illuminating my light tonight 
Is what you do to me
Hesitating as I see red light
Is a dilemma of anxiety 

Promises kept me in a knot
When they are entirely torn
Promises do practically rot
When they are forever forlorn 

Colliding and I cascade
Into the river tide, I laid
My promises down and I drown 
In the ocean waves and all the way down

In the ocean waves
It surely saves…
The silent treatment you give me
The disheartenment you possibly
Fed me since 1997
Dread inside again…

Bed-ridden with hidden vanity 
It’s uncanny that you’re happy,
Bringing me down and I nearly drown
In the waves of deliberate doubt
As I talk my talk with hardly a frown
As I walk this route and I’m out…gravity-bound 

I braved a solace shame
Shame on you, for I came
Undone in your lonely oceanic, ominous motion 
Of your unfiltered emotion…my, oh my lost devotion 

Frightened me, for you gave me the shakes 
Tightened my grip on these inner brakes

I’m dying alive in your arms,
But I survived the harms
You put me through and you deceived me with charms
Of manifesting, manipulative misery
A lost love of a mystifying mystery

Promise me you won’t let go of me
Abyss liberty won’t let me be free
Please ease my anxious mindset
I’m hanging by a thread of regret

Flawed perfectly by your web of warped-up wretchedness 
Gnawed indecisively upon your skin from within and hopeless
Promise me you won’t end up like me, my baby
You won’t end up being broken eternally..

Somehow, you’ll see…..
My angst and my agony…
Now, you will be free, unlike me, darling bliss
Take wing, take wing, take wing
It’s everything…everything…the thing is…
Bring me serenity and its sting
Promises fade and get used to it, for it will happen night and day with utmost dismay
It progresses, the tension between us and you throw shade my way 

I prey upon the waves of your emotions
I’m sorry for my uncertain decisions
I pray we are oceans united and undo the good that died
Aside from the dread inside, aside from the loneliness that left me with tears to cry and hide

The ocean waves is where my spirit abides
Your lonely soul tonight lies with my own prides

Bruised…
Abused…

Don’t shame me for loving someone else rather than you 
Won’t you blame someone else for your rue and what you go through?
Or do me a flourishing favor and give your apprehension tides
A reason to heal my perplexed prides and be my remedy rides

Oh, you did mend
As I began my end
As promised…as promises send
A lone love I tend to comprehend

Promises are temporary
So are memories; however, you —
You’re an endless sea
Of emotional endearment anew

This lonely soul met your spirit of might at last
You’re my true future, my present and my past 

I want to taste your happy tears
As I roam home, no longer lost
Years of our fears fade like most promises do
But my promise to you won’t ever disappear, true

Promises fade,
But my promises to you won’t fade

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