Codependency, n.: How strange that society tells us we must pair off, then defines this word as harmful.

Please
let’s not use politeness
and busyness and silence
to avoid our problems
and the places where we hurt.
If something is wrong
let’s go after it and make it right.

People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts.

Other people always let you down. Why don’t you forget them and do something for yourself?

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those.

How can you trust your feelings when they can just disappear like that?

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.