Don’t you dare promise me forever

When you know there is no such thing

As time

And forever is another

empty black hole 

And a promise, an empty one

Can never be fulfilled 

Or proven 

Or disproven

Until it’s too late

But what is too late when you take away time

When time is disqualified 

And no longer a human emotion

What can measure the absence of forever

Quite so dismally as time

And on which side of imaginary do you want to be, really

Running out of time?

Or time stretching before you like a limitless race

With no finish line

No winners

And no exits

A racetrack bunny trapped in space 

For all of forever

And you can’t fake it well enough to promise me that