If you have ever regretted "Dropping Guard," would this poem describe how you felt?

Question

Dropping Guard

Plug's been pulled

air let out

life-line

carelessly cut.

Curse the day

you allowed yourself

to depend

on another's strength.

Knowing better

dropping guard

you reached

to outstretched hand.

Strong crutch you

came to lean upon

walked away

abandoned again.

Beware the empty

"know I'll be there"

"count on me"

lies you can't believe.

Alone was a place

once left behind

you return

to find nothing's changed.

Answer 1

I went down this road many years ago..I found that the only person you could count on is yourself.Alone is not a bad thing, there are many pluses.I have become strong,capable of taking care of myself.

Happy in my life.Content to do my own thing.Someone else can not make you happy.Only one person can do that for you--it is YOU.

Answer 2

yes, i know that feeling all too well.  i can't believe i put so much trust in and came to depend on someone when i never let myself do that before.  

he not only let me fall, he walked me to a cliff and pushed me off.

this was beautiful ma.  it has me crying. (literally)

please tell me you're not going through what i am!

Answer 3

,,, it happened only once.

Answer 4

Yeah, you hit the chord true, Ma!  I have an extra t-shirt.  Want one?

Answer 5

I leave you a few stanzas from a larger piece I've written, my reflection to compliment your descriptive words.

No, no, I'm happy for you,

the silence from me is not that I'm muted,

I've nothing to say because of promises made

that leave the meaning of words diluted.

"Always, till the end of time, forever,

I'd never hurt you" said without meaning.

Words now a token of my spirit that's broken,

here take my throat it's primed for choking.

Left with only two possessions to hold,

grab them they're fading rapidly,

an eternally saved but dehydrated soul,

and a heart overflowing with apathy.

Answer 6

I ain't hidin' in no cages no more. Ya go out in the streets, you're gonna get hurt.

Ya hide in a cage ya ain't got a life.

What's worse?

Jeez...the poem. It's real literature!

Answer 7

I let down my guard and then I get nailed with a left hook.  Happens every time, but still I feel compelled to let someone get close to my heart from time to time.  I seem to be the one to champion the underdogs, especially women, and they seem to be the ones who do the most damage when I don't expect it.  But still, I survive to let down my guard again for another.  I don't complain, I just shake it off and start the next round, for there is no limit to what we can do for and with the power of love.

Answer 8

been there, done that. i've learned that in my 64 years, the only person i can depend on is me...at least to my specifications, wants and needs.

Answer 9

Amen to that, poem hits it right on the head.

Answer 10

To a Capital 'T'

Answer 11

The plugs been pull

even though i am still breathing.

I understand i have to depend on someone else.

I lived for who knows why

Then they who you depended on

Left me alone to die again.

We are born with loving understanding

But we die with no clue.

Very Good Ma. Its so sad but so true..

Answer 12

I love this poem!!! I think as a mother of teenage daughters, I'd like to pass these words on to them. To teach them, to count on themselves. Great words Ma, thank you!