Words

or terms of endearment,

although it seems as though he had

because what he did say

resembled something deep and meaningful

more than anything I've ever heard before

There were no promises in his words,

but they were somehow still quite promising

And he spoke them to me

and he made sure that I heard them

and he made sure that I knew that they were meant for only me

but as it turns out, they weren't meaningful at all

they were just words

just empty and cruel

--painful sounds that reverberate in my ears