full of empty promises
words like tomorrow 
meaning nothing
when today has claimed me
when I am slowly being choked
by tendrils of the present
when the past has gripped onto my soul
who is to say that this intangible, "tomorrow"
will be my saving grace?
as i lay here gasping from the
after effects of yesterday,
how can the future
tell me it won't always be this way
when that was what you said yesterday,
and now today
is tomorrow