codependence

by reminiscent-afterthought

Maybe their relationship wasn't healthy, but it was what it was and ultimately it worked. And it couldn't get much better when two kids are left to live with their own devices.

4. 4

codependence
4.

You're not perfect.
You know you're not perfect
but you try anyway.

That's human, isn't it?
That's adulthood.
What about those like me
who don't need to try?

I'm still a child
and by right of age
you're a child as well.
But your name's on the paperwork.
Your name's on the bank accounts

And I won't ask how you fill them.
I know.

I tell the social worker I don't anyway.
I'm a good child. I listen.

Adults don't really listen, do they.
But you try. You listen
a lot of the time,
most of the time.

Sometimes you don't.