Unpredictable

She flinches when you touch her,
it is a conditioned response
from a life of battered nerves,
and you can’t imagine how it is
that she can still ask you
to wrap your arms around her,
when so many other arms 
have been cages.

Each one of us has gotta do our work in healing ourselves, in stopping the cycle of being broken and breaking others. We can blame the people who broke us, and they can blame the people who broke them, and so on, ad infinitum, but at some point it has to stop. Someone has to chose to break the chain. It’s the only way our world will improve. 

Please repeat after me:

Anyone who truly cares about you will always find a way back to you.

I think that’s what happens when you’ve lived a lonely childhood. You get too attached to people as you get older, in the hope that they’ll give you the care and love that you missed out on and never leave you.