Rhyme and Reflection

Spinning life’s chaos into laughs, stories, and verses — because therapy is expensive

A Promise

A Promise

Saturday, May 06, 2023 | 2 minute read

Many ideas that bubble up into a thought but seldom gets completed .. like incomplete houses .. skeletons that need a lot of work .. yet at one point in time,  it seemed it had wings .. reviewing some of the incomplete poems in my repository .. some incomplete because I could not find the next logical step .. some due to sheer laziness .. few others, just lost in time and space .. So, here I took an almost completed version and asked ChatGPT to help and voila! we have a finished product .. a first for me in collaboration with ChatGPT .. Impressed with the way the last line shaped up ..

.. and even the image is AI generated .. welcome to the new world!

Death a promise
Unnegotiable

And she came to take me away
Leaving behind a body for the spirit to be alive
But I was not ready to let go of this life
So I fought with all my might to keep the flame inside

Death was not pleased with my stubborn will
She said I had to face the inevitable still
But I refused to listen to her cold words
I clung to every breath as if it were my first

Death a promise
Unnegotiable
But I broke it anyway and lived another day


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