Promise 1: Shallow Depths

Tell me, that my feelings are shallow

And I wouldn’t deny you that fact,

For my emotions run skin deep,

But not for the fact that at my core

Lies anything superficial, but because

I lack the common decency to deceive everyone

Into believing that things are as peaceful as they seem.

Read it on my expression that refuses to forget:

On my brow and its various contortions and twists,

My lips curved downward: (pursed in shallow dips)

And my eyelids wavering with the sway of regret.

Placidness – is merely the semblance of my fabricated reality

When I invite you into my world, take a look into my eyes, and

Be not afraid of its depths or you and I will drown in its torrent,

Because my shallowness is as deep as my bare flesh, you see.

And the truth is that a single tear dropping in the calm

Is enough to send ripples that bounce, echo, and recall.

Whose amplitude gives way to greater magnitude –

And nature’s violent tidal forces take over.

“I can only hope to be the one to remain.”