</>I promised you the world, my love,
But the world slipped through my fingers
Like water through a sieve,
A forearm through a sleeve
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[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.....Hannah Arendt]
but sometimes the intention supersedes the commitment as your poem so rightly expresses
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[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.....Hannah Arendt] but sometimes the intention supersedes the commitment as your poem so rightly expresses