Promises

We swear to stay until the trouble comes

Ever believing the love can’t be drowned

Always meant in the most heartfelt ways

So we stick together as if eternally bound

Then pass the days, the passion it wears

Frays at the seam, yet holds like a shackle

When before nothing mattered, shattered

These fettered words crumble committal

We call out the issues of incompatibility

Compare our failures to statistical deed

See no harm in living with past ghosts

They always end up as such, no need

So love comes easy, sh...