About Failure

Every time I go back
I see her

Sunken eyes
as if hope weighed them
so heavily
they started retreating

Stooping now
just enough
her view blocked
by a chain link fence

A nervous woman
always doing, just enough
saying, just enough
never more

Each time she tries to leave with me

Each time she gets a mile closer

She says:
to be more is to be wrong
to want more is to be selfish

If she succeeds
I will be just enough
-never more