Detachment is a gift. It will be given to us when we’re ready for it. When we set the other person free, we are set free. (The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie)

Addiction to alcohol, drugs,
binge-eating, sugar, gambling,
shopping – then there’s that wraith,
addiction to people.
Codependency – keeping sick
people sick, including us.
Enabling, excusing, covering,
perpetuating irresponsibility —
I’ve long practiced entanglement,
pulling everyone involved
to the depths of mire, despair, defeat.
“You” so dominate my thoughts,
yours are my emotions, preferences,
fears. Am “I” so pathetic I cannot learn
to be happy, so inept I do not know
what I think?

I have been. The character defect
to trump all the rest.
Fear snags me still. But I am
entirely ready to have God
remove this defect, all these defects,
these legions of defects.
God, I stand humbled by your love.
Please remove my defects
that stand in your way.