Promise

Staring at the starry skies with melancholy 

My eyes dart at the shooting star that crosses my way

An unspoken promise silently draft

Shattered into pieces. 

Smiles lost at happiness cost

I stand at desolate plains surrounded by frost 

Blankly gaping at my own two feet 

What happened to the oath? 

A group of people standing together 

Beneath the tree, on the bench 

Breeze blowing between our hair

Unbroken joy evident on our faces 

Until the passage of time had us change places. 

One after the other leaving the promise behind 

Footsteps shifted, headed to places unreachable so

Slender fingers unable to grip the latter 

Tears streaming down one's cheeks.

Pray tell, why does change exist? 

Pray tell! Does change truly mean to shatter everything 

We once had in the past? 

Bitterness filled my heart. 

Knowing that I would never see the light

Of our smiles together ever again

It is painful yet that is transformation

An acceptable defeat, one would say. 

I have held on enough

And now I wish not to hold on anymore

Leaving the string that I once held dear

To flow alongside the broken promise 

Now swept away with the wind of time. 

This is my final goodbye

To memories and to laughter 

A grim greeting to change

And to new stories yet to unfold.