Deadly Games Part 2

Promise

It has been ten months

eighteen days

and seven hours

since you told me everything was going to be okay

you promised me and I so wanted

to believe you.

I've counted down the days

holding onto that promise that everything

would be okay.

But as the days turned to weeks and those

into months

I realized you promised me something

that you couldn't give me

you had no idea

whether i would get better or not

I suppose

you simply wanted me to feel better in the moment

but you shouldn't have promised me something

so impossible.

But that last piece of your empty promise

was bled out today as it has every day

for the ten months, eighteen days

and seven hours

since you told me. 

But tell me now, think this time as you watch me bleed,

will everything be okay?

(E.B)