Chasin' The Wind Poem by David Whalen

A promise is….

Something fated to be broken
A wave upon the shore

Silence broken by burst balloon
Reverie rent by rap upon the door

A promise …so very hard to keep
A pledge… so wafer thin

A promise is…a due. but unpaid debt
While still kept…A yet uncommitted sin

And no matter how hard it tis to keep
Resolve slips thru’ cracks e’er so thin

As well as you might try
To keep from breaking a promise (for most)

You might just as well be…
chasing the wind