Promises

I waited.

On paper I drew a heart

And filled it with love

I placed it, for safekeeping

Into a glass bottle

And closed it.

Nothing could get in.

Or out.

But then it was time

For me to throw you out

Into the sea

Where you could be free

You opened up there

And my heart drifted away

You became who you are

And it seems you may stay

But yet I waited

On the same coast

For the same bottle

To return to me

Even then

When you did

My heart was gone

Torn into pieces

By the truth

To me you were empty.

But I knew.

You were filled with truth.

The one thing

That even our love

Could never change