I Don’t Want Promises

I don’t want promises. I can show you the fault lines of all the ones given carelessly and broken easily. They are the map of my life, and…

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I don’t want promises. I can show you the fault lines of all the ones given carelessly and broken easily. They are the map of my life, and I don’t need any more roads or rivers drawn across my frame.

Do you see these shoulders? These shoulders have carried the weight of the world, have borne up under a lifetime of stress …