Promises Poem by MOLOY BHATTACHARYA

I
We make promises
That we must keep
Then we forget
The promise made
Earlier to be kept.
It creates distances
Mental and physical
Among the people
Known to each other,
And they turn hostile
Or behave like rivals.
II
Look at the youth
Standing under the tree,
In the sultry heat
For the girl who promised
To meet him there.
He believed her blindly
And waited for long hours
But she hardly turned up,
The message he got
That her promise was lost.
III
The soldier promised
Her little daughter
To bring chocolate
And colourful gifts
On his return
From the battlefield.
His girl hugged
And waved him off.
After a month
She learnt the secret
From her mother
That his father
Has turned into a star.