YOU PROMISED LAUGHTER

YOU PROMISED LAUGHTER

You promised laughter,
said my sadness would be gone,
you held me while the moon was high
then disappeared by dawn.

You painted me a future
with a brush dipped into lies,
I thought I saw forever
when I looked into your eyes.

You promised me a garden
where no broken flowers fell,
but every rose grew thorns on me
and all my tears turned to hell.

You knew the wounds I carried,
I showed you every scar,
you said you’d never hurt me,
then hurt me twice as hard.

I waited for your footsteps,
for your key inside the door,
but silence came to visit
and slept upon the floor.

My tears became a river
that nobody could see,
I smiled before the watching world
while drowning underneath.

You promised me your laughter,
but left an empty sound,
a memory like shattered glass
still scattered all around.

But hell cannot hold forever
a heart that wants to rise,
and truth will find the daylight
however darkness lies.

So keep your hollow promises,
I know their taste too well,
you promised me a heaven,
yet my tears turned to hell.

Now I will build my heaven
without your hand in mine,
and one day I will laugh again—
but the laughter will be mine.