Winters in Codependency

Attachment is not compassion
Clinging, needy and desperate
Smoldering, smothering obsession
Getting caught up in the moment

Comfort is not completion
Sometimes it is just a hug
Simple platonic affection
Attraction becomes a drug

Passion is not kindness
Lost amidst your desire
Conquest through tenderness
A friendship on fire

Love is not selfish
Meeting only your own needs
Sexually deviant conquests
Lustful and unclean

Impulsive is not appealing
Meeting needs only to fill the void
Flirtatious, foolhardy feelings
Building up only to destroy

Truth is not mercy
Bare your soul and feel the burn
Callous, unforgiving clarity
What you are is what you yearn