coddling

i benefit nothing

   on behalf of

      your coddling

your fears

   of letting me go

      to grow

i have no need

   of your pity

      patronizing commiseration

         not a hint of it

            relates to me

what would you give,

   surrender,

      honestly?

i see now, it is you

   that needs me

      to need you

yet

 i know firsthand

you benefit nothing

    on behalf of

      my coddling

~csr