"Promise"

A Promise made in Youth's new Light,
A quiet Word of one; quite Trite.
Honoured by those, wholly Polite.
Can fade from Memory in the Night.

A Promise formed in Adolescence.
A spoken phrase of Idol Sense.
A Lie captured, with no recompense.
An ebbing Mist lost, reticence.

A Promise made I, a Word, a Breath,
To cherish one, on their Bed of Death.
I hold such Words, my dying breath.
Never to break, until I rest in Death.