I'm Sorry

I felt compelled to change you

To avoid changing myself

If I could make

The circumstance

Fit my brokenness

I wouldn’t have to

Examine it

So I tried to bend you

Into a satisfactory shape

And because you could

You tried

To reciprocate

So there we were

Enmeshed

In codependency

Neither of us willing

To do what had to be

To change what needed changing

Until my same

Self-sabotaging tendencies

Bubbled up again

And I strayed away

Into another life

Another’s arms

And left you to implode