Don’t need an intervention

Or the good intentions it imbues

Never wanted pity

Least of all yours, for loving you!

I’m a vent without a filter

A flame without spark

My center is left and slightly off kilter

Every pain until you

Was a walk in the park

Should have never opened up this door

I knew what it would do

And as for you and your part,

You should have known it too

I’d like it stricken from the records

And all the documents corrected

That say you ever loved me back

Or worse!

That you felt the same as I,

as I mistakenly suspected

Did I make you believe

In something that’s untrue?

Tell me, just exactly what

I ever asked of you?

Does it piss you off

That you wasted time on me?

How cruel then, to both of us

to not just let me be

All this time

You mistook my need for bravery

And longing for strength

Then took my faith and stretched it

Far beyond its length

I tried to fight it as best I could

Because I truly love you

The way love truly should

I think you thought me fearless

And it gave you courage too

It was desire that was brave,

not me

Don’t you see it came from you

You needed answers, I see that now

But accepted none

Too bothered by the why and how

Whoever said the truth was fun

Take these words for nothing more

Than tiny grains of salt

For I mean no ill intent

Or to place some kind of fault

I just mean to explain

That I wasn’t trying to hurt you

And I know from you the same

So, please just don’t be mad at me

When you’re searching to place blame

Someday I think you’ll see it

That I meant every single word

And when you do, remember

What you felt, not what you thought you knew or heard