Best Broken Promises Poems
I dared to chase that elusive butterfly
of love until he landed in my heart.
Caught up in wondrous fascination,
I placed my trust on its fragile wings
but they crumbled all around me
in broken promises lying on the ground.
I was betrayed by my heartless butterfly,
used like a pawn in a cruel lover's game.
He promised to love me for all eternity,
a promise broken in each word he'd spoken.
His romantic letters were works of fiction,
camouflaged behind the guise of truth.
In sorrow's hands I laid my aching heart.
Wounded by deceit, it had tumbled
into a deep abyss of sorrow and despair.
Like raindrops running down a window pane,
my tears flowed into a sea of solitude
where I shall linger in darkness until I drown.
Forsaken heart of mine, you will perish thus,
staring at a sunset, alone on a barren shore.
Have you lost all hope since love has flown?
I will carve your epitaph in grains of sand
with my trembling hand before darkness falls
and waves of broken promises carry you to sea.
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June 30, 2017
Broken promises
being made most of the time
honesty no more
Promises, Promises...boldy broken
I spite these words when hastily spoken
The act pledged is almost never the issue
it's the scanning of priorties...somehow they missed you!!
You would never have held breath and waited
But the promiser spoke, declaritively stated...
"I will..." "We'll Go...." "Real soon..." "I promise..."
You'd have no reason not to take them at honest...
From as far back as I can remember
every promise I heard was "return to sender"
The phone would ring, my heart would sing
voice on the other end says...."forget the whole thing"
No fishing trips, campouts, or cookouts...look out!
Every time my hopes were up, then hooked out...
I died each time they let me down
when they picked me up, then set me down
when I had to kick start the merry-go-round
sat in an unpushed swing at the play ground...
So thinking back, I know it's why
I see a broken promise like a boldface lie
I hate nothing more than when words are hollow
when an oral oath lacks the action to follow
Trust breaks down when mouths, they run
Hold your tongue then no harm is done!!
Inspired by Michael's "What gets your Goat" contest!!
I want to write you a love note
for the entire universe to see
But the love I had for you is gone
It came out of me like a river of blood
Yesterday I saw forever in your eyes
Today all I see is broken promises
If I stay with you I will lose myself
I will be no more, I will surely die
Why try to hold on to the memory of yesterday
This relationship is dead and it's just a mirage
It would take a miracle to resurrect this sham
Yesterday I believed in us and miracles
Today I don't believe in anything at all
Because I found that it's a waste of time
I stare at this blank piece of paper
but the ink that have is blood
Alexis Y.
9-25-17
On a clear blue sky
Two doves fly, sadly unpaired
Broken hearted love.
Putting on my rings
my hand reached past the one
I was looking for to the ones
Pillowed softly in the back
I gently touched them
Then without emotion take them out
And slipped them on my finger
Memories went through my mind
Like a silent movie
The delight I had when you gave them to me
How hard I tried to think of every reason
to use my hands and show them off
The way I would twist them when I was nervous
The white band they made with a summer tan
And the day I took them off
I promised you forever
but I stole my promise back
somewhere in all those years
of pretending to be happy
My heart rusted from neglect
I determined that a person that enjoys his own misery
Learns to resent rainbows
Lonelier with you than I ever was alone
I selfishly chose my own happiness
and finally I have given up the guilt of
not being able to 'fix' it
What do you do with old wedding rings
Are they demoted to whatever monetary value
They may have
Are they tucked forever away
with the baby teeth and first shoes
Does the preciousness of the love they once
Symbolized have any value
Without emotion I pillowed them back into
The softness and closed the box
Possibly you broke some promises too
My heart was pounding,
My breath catching,
I saw you sitting there.
You looked my way,
Our eyes kissed,
I was already falling.
You took me home,
You gave me roses,
The smell of your cologne.
My perfume,
Permiating our senses,
The warmth I felt.
Our lips met,
My mouth smiled,
I was sure .
I showed you patience,
You showed me love,
We were falling.
You told me first,
I said it back to you,
The moon was full.
We had many dates,
In days ahead,
That numbered ninety- eight.
You were quick to ask,
Under the stars,
I said "yes".
We enjoyed the winter,
The nights were blustery and cold,
The fires burned down deep inside.
We had our first disagreement,
Words were exchanged,
My diamond dulled.
I found out you had lied,
I wanted to go,
You cried.
Your finger poking my thigh,
Trying,
Trying to convince me.
To stay.
But I knew, I had to go,
It would never,
Be the same.
The door,
The good-byes,
The tears, as I looked back.
A heart so fulfilled,
Sleeps under the stars,
Lighting my bittersweet sorrows.
My love has stayed,
Beneath your sky,
That's black as night.
The horses sigh,
Under the moon,
That's full and bright.
If you look,
To the stars,
On a clear evening,
You'll see.
A beautiful black horse,
Running,
She's wild,
But she's never really free.
Broken promises are all I ever get
My feelings don't count when your mind is set
Broken promises you keep throwing my way.
Broken promises always seem to ruin my day
I hold on to hope that you will change
Other people think my loving you sometimes is so derange
You just always assume I will be there
These broken promises are not fare
Coming last too all your friends
Broken promises yes it does offend
Broken promises, forgetting anniversaries, and treating me like crap
I've put up with it all
Broken promises feel like to me a slap
Broke promises over and over is insane
It's causing so much strain
Things have got to change fast
He does not see his future is going to be left in his past
Time is slipping bye so quick
Little by little I'm loosening this fight to keep him
It's making me sick
His chances at keeping me now unless he changes are skim
Will broke promises and his friends ruin what we once had
I hope not because if so I'll be very sad
Form:
A few word spoken by one in faith, a mere gesture of what one will do…words that declare
ones honesty or conveys one intention of what one will do or a cryptic utterances of words,
said inside a secreted place were only a few are ever permitted to go. In a Synagogue or
place of worship and spoken by two…vows that proclaim honor and a commitment that will
be shared by two. Some leaders place their hands on the most holiest book in the land and
speak words of honesty, integrity and service to the people and as a testimony of what they
will do…Never let any words proceed out of your mouth that you know not to be true. No
words spoken in a promise are just mere words, but once proclaimed as an action become a
broken promise and lie’s once those words of the utterer fails to deliver on those words that
were spoken by them to be the truth.
As the king of my domain
I feel like I'm going insane
When the chapters of my life just pass me on by
Can't figure out why
When I live each chapter with plenty of laughter
None of it fit like a good mitt
This is when we must admit
Forever love has to be the right fit
I took each day to love you in my own special way
Didn't lie or sneak around for a different flavor of pie
Like the sunset reflects across the bay
It's with my words I must say
I gave it my all in every way
That is not to say we had our fair share of displays
Of our love that takes us away
We sure had plenty of days
When our relationship was in complete disarray
We both had our bad days
I will be the first to say
We will always have our love that came into play
In love, we must keep our eyes on all things that apply
Both of us have to always try
But like the stars that fall from afar
We have too many scars
It's impossible for us to fix
Our love we will so miss
Understanding our love is broken
I no longer feel outspoken
Feeling like I am choking
We can't just keep on stroking
Neither one of us have been coping
Stopping our love from no longer floating
Hoping we can both agree
This love is not what we both could see
Too many broken promises
We no longer look each other in the eyes
I can't take anymore lies
The whole thing wants to make me cry
Oh how this love has cut me down to size
Trust me we are better off saying goodbye
To our love that we have to let lye
So we both don't feel like we just want to die
Living a lie from our love that just passed on by
Broken Promises
They say that a promise is
A comfort to a fool.
To a child a broken
promise is the biggest
disappointment they
will ever experience so
do not make promises to them
that you don't intend to keep.
To a lover a broken promise
is a trust gone astray!
To a mother from a child-
its many nights without sleep.
From a nation to its people-
Another Political trick.
To a soldier longing for home
It's his life being spent.
But that promise
you made between
yourself and your creator -
Seems be the
hardest one to keep.
When promises made too self are
broken you've dug a hole too deep.
Those are the worse of days-
You have tuned God's channels out
.
You think that you are in control-
And soon realize you're not.
Yet, promises made daily ‘’to self’’
are USUALLY FIRST- then -quickly forgotten.
THESE Are the only promises
that could have saved your life.
If only your promises to self
you were determined to keep.
Maybe THEN I WOULD TRUST
THE PROMISES MADE TO ME.
Please do not comfort me
with your empty words,
When it's only your
self you want to serve.
Why, make a fool
of me, yourself-
and everyone else?
PLEDGING obligations that
you cannot meet.
You had no intentions of
pleasing anyone but yourself.
Another broken promise -
You never got around to.
Another poem written-
in shades of blue.
Another night without sleep.
Another promise, you failed to keep.
Copyright © Vicki Acquah | Year Posted 2013
I
Fear of God was healthy for friends
The relationship was it, not ulterior ends
II
Fear of God is still widely spoken
Love of things, brings Promises broken
This love of irrevocable
Hold I sent it from empyrean beyond
Nightfall calls stars upon the welkin
My love! Glimpse higher and higher
Preeminent stars which of paragon sheens us
Come nigh clasps for a spell
Scintillating planetoid effulgences and watch us
Afar the intoning troubadour of nightangle bides in earnest to sing
These entire cosmos peek and descry of our love
Oh my leman! Come closer and closer
For thou, I surrender all my psyches
Rouse me by your amiable osculation
Let me romance for quondam in your balmy bosom
Let me trance and sojourn to the bliss.
::Dawa Zangpo
I stood by your side through good and bad times;
I comforted, loved and cared for you-
Doing my best to see that, together, we would make it through
But you took our vows for granted and went merrily on your way
And that is why we are where we are today.
You did not take us seriously and now you refuse to accept the blame
That all I really got from you were broken promises and shattered dreams.
When I needed you most, you were never there to give me that comfort, to show
me you cared
When I was feeling blue and my heart ached with so much pain, you went on
life's pathway just the same, taking for granted that I would always remain
Even though your words were unfruitful that they became nothing but broken
promises and shattered dreams.
Broken promises and shattered dreams are all that's left of us
For upon you I could not depend; And for all my good, you did re-send a
package wrapped in high-esteem, over laden with broken promises and
shattered dreams.
What I needed from you was just your love and devotion
Yet what I received was great-swelling words without real emotion.
You were given my love and you threw it away as if it was worthless and of
no value in your "scene;" so you let it return to me as broken promises
and shattered dreams.
I gave you my Love; you were the apple of my eye, but you cast it to the wind
and constantly made me cry.
I gave you my heart, you were my everything; but you rejected it, and left me
pierced and stained with memories of broken promises and shattered
dreams.
I feel nothing
I am numb inside
My heart has been broken
I am at a loss
There is nothing left
The pain overtook the joy I once felt
A destructive behavior tore apart my very hope
I have no choice then to give up
And not look back
My veins are broken and misplaced
I have absolutely no place of comfort
No safe haven
I have chains that shackle my feet and keep me grounded
Where I am pulled and tortured
For you brought the pain and left me to the shame in this game you played.