Forgive my weakness
I let you go
I saw you struggling
And did not know
How much you needed
The time and space
To get used to
My warm embrace
Forgive my weakness
I can’t let go
My heart is struggling
And needs to know
If you ever needed
My time and space
If you got used to
Love’s warm embrace
Forgive my weakness
I need to go
Now I am struggling
Don’t want to know
How much he needed
Your time and space
How you grew used to
His warm embrace
In So Many Words 
June 6th, 2015 at 9:52 am
I’ve read this many times. I love it but I’m poetry-challenged so, question: is this one relationship over time or various aspects of relationships in general? What did you have in mind?
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June 6th, 2015 at 1:51 pm
Very keen: you are not as poetry-challenged as you think yourself to be. This poem of weakness is actually about three separate relationships and the obvious common denominator: me.
Thanks for your inquisitive response!
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June 6th, 2015 at 10:50 am
Reblogged this on momentarylapseofsanity.
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June 6th, 2015 at 1:59 pm
Thanks again for this lovely gesture. I really appreciate the reblog! 😃
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June 7th, 2015 at 3:26 am
i love this it really resonated with me too I have a complex unrequited love slash love triangle thing happening and can relate a lot
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June 7th, 2015 at 6:41 am
Sorry to hear it’s unrequited love, but triangles are never simple. Glad this resonated with you. Hugs.
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June 7th, 2015 at 3:26 am
I love this it’s great
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June 7th, 2015 at 6:38 am
Thanks!
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June 10th, 2015 at 11:40 am
Ouch..how painful this work. The first verse was so like many of those abused who need time, the rest is of lost loves and so sad. I am emerged in the fact this is a three, and may really be three different sides of one. still it is a three. I wonder at the hurt that tore this from you , my friend. Many hugs
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June 10th, 2015 at 11:56 am
Not so much *tore* as *released*!
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June 10th, 2015 at 12:05 pm
I wish I had the power to ease all harms and ills, you would be one of the first I would offer my gift to. However I can only simply sit on the sidelines and read the words which must have once been such horrid pain that makes me want to shrink from them, but your light of life, your joy in living keeps that deep darkness from coming, and I will stay. You seem to have all the parts of life in one person and I think that is a hard burden to carry. Many hugs
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June 10th, 2015 at 7:37 pm
Thank you Scottie! That is very sweet of you to say. This blog is my therapy.
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December 23rd, 2015 at 2:09 pm
I read this again with fresh eyes. It tells a tale of change over time, of the feelings inside a person. From worry they are not enough, wanting more than they sense they are wanted to give, to coming to a point of getting what the person wanted, and finding they did not want so much of what they first felt they needed. IF only they could only had the confidence to love what they had and slowly grow into it. Sad. A love pushed too fast, and too much insecurity. That is the story I see now. Hugs and loves.
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December 23rd, 2015 at 11:47 pm
Very keen, Scottie. I had three separate relationships in mind for each stanza but realized they flowed and fed into one another with myself as the obvious common denominator.
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December 24th, 2015 at 5:42 am
grand
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