TOXIC

I used to think it was cute
The way you’d beg and pout
Carefully conditioning me
Until you could demand and shout.

You always had a way of guilting me
Manipulating situations at your whim
If you didn’t get your way
I might as well go out on a limb.

All my friends warned me
Time after time, I didn’t care
I would hardly listen
I swore what we had was rare.

Had me wrapped around your finger
I took your word for truth
I would’ve believed anything
Oh, the ignorance of youth.

Well, I’m older now
And I can finally see
This was never love
It was codependency.