Naikan

A committed relationship is like watering an established plant 

It doesn’t NEED your care

But it benefits from it. 

Friendships are like a mature tree 

Their leaves die back after blooming,

everyone survives,

year after year,

No hard feelings…

Men go like: have you eaten?

After an argument where he feels depleted 

His woman has made his ego battered and defeated…

But all she needed 

Was to know that he was seekin

a way to understand her emotional feelings

She asks: how are you doing?

Stoically, you keep brooding 

 Your father did that

Didn’t you say he didn’t know what he was doing?

You convince her to heal

While you’re just trying to deal

Ignoring the traumas that make you kneel

Bent over about to keel 

From pain you never wanted to feel

Five years pass and she’s fixed at last 

Since then your ghosts have held steadfast 

But you’re falling short 

Danny Devito in a stunt double sport 

Your shadow reminds you of thoughts you thwart 

In an attempt to support 

your grand facade 

Evolving never had to be so macabre

Flowers wilt so their seeds go abroad 

A part of you dies

because the truth therein lies…