Jaime

You did not one thing wrong

Reaching out again for me as I

Backed away as might an animal

Wounded, angry and defensive

But you did not make the wounds

Did not render me so very afraid

Of any of the many things

That I feared more than I loved

Comfortable in my paranoia

The safety you offered was foreign

Feeling as a snake might coiling

Around my legs to bind me

My past defined our shared future

Which is to say that I allowed it

To destroy any love we might

Have made a foundation for more

The truth is I left out of fear

In vain you struggled nobly to save

A man irreparably and intensely shattered

Infinitely undeserving of you

It is a mark of the purity of your heart

A heart composed of warmth

That you have somehow managed

To think any of it your fault