Expectations, they say,

assassinate bliss

Expectations, they say,

tempt tears

Expectations, they say,

demolish castles

Expectations, they say.

break hearts.

I have, a zillion times,

begged them to stay away

I have, more than once,

snubbed their lofty kinship

I have, with a heavy heart,

pushed them in the secret closet.

God only knows why and how

have they gulped down

oaths of the strangest nature

Oaths that bind them

to pull out all the strings

that keep my joyous packets together.