The Promise

Okay, after Fade To Black I went ahead and fiddled with this one I call The Promise. I think I pretty much have it to where I want it so I figured I'd share it here as I generally do.

The Promise

I'm sorry.
I don't know if you'll ever be able
to forgive me for this betrayal.
I hope you can find it in you to try.
I understand that a promise was made,
between friends, in earnest.
Cross my heart, hope to die and all
but I failed you. It was a promise
that I wasn't able to keep.
I couldn't escape living with
the burden of it day after day.
The weight of it was killing me,
eating away at me from the inside.
Slowly, surely, painfully.
What's done is done, I can't...won't
take it back.
So, you tell me.
Was this the coward's way out, then?
I never expected it.
I never intended to.
Despite everything,
somewhere along the way,
I have fallen in love with you.

Okay. That's had some reworking done on it just in the process of typing it up here. It's taken on a slightly different shape than it had previous to this but that's the happiest I've been with it now since coming up with it. I'm not gonna finalize it just yet. Consider this one still open for alteration.

Cheers.