Promises

(A Poem requested by a friend)

What are promises

but mere words slipped from a gifted tongue

No meaning, no sense

yet can leave the heart stung

No more than a lie

uttered in the heat of passion

Just intoxicated

in wild and feverish sensation

Can you really promise forever?

When you're sure you'd keep it never?

But promises written in the heart

spoken by the eyes

Locked in the mind with sealed lips

are no lies

But are there any left,

in this insane world?

Where you can have everything

but never can hold?

I don't wanna wish or hope...

that is too much expectation

Just play along with life's game

without any delusion.