undertaking
I never wanted to write bitterly about you.
I promised this to myself long ago but in light of life and in dark of hopelessness,
what ground does my promise hold?
and yet I keep it, like I kept all the other vows I made to you.
we start learning the alphabet around the age of 2
but it’s been over two decades since and somehow ‘I’ still comes after you.
over two decades and somehow the same alphabet still fails me;
did I learn differently than everyone I knew?
how am I grasping at straws,
at words,
and coming up with nothing?
he sings ‘I’m losing my baby on promises kept’
and I’m thinking of how I missed out on the day they taught that
‘I’ always comes before you.
Originally published at phantasmagothica.wordpress.com on April 4, 2019.