Monday, June 13, 2022

Codependent - Narcissist

 I, a Pleaser from childhood, from birth,

obligated to placate grown up wrath;

peacemaker, quiet, diffident, withdrawn,

Cooped up in the corner of Brains over Brawn;


How could I resist the toxic Controller,

Strong, decisive, driven, confident?

Slender of waist, beauty sublime,

cutting words, and infinite anger?

Clothed in the garb of piety,

Secure in her self righteousness?


I was a sitting duck

fish in a barrel

a hypnotized deer in the headlights


Slaving to appease her vicious caprice

with grovelling compliance

I lost myself pursuing her approval

And still she left

Abandoning me

to my fear of abandonment

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