increments

Have you ever seen
The end of a relationship
At its genesis?
What do you do?
I am dating a woman
I could love
Except for the fact
That she has told me
She doesn’t deserve a relationship
And that she will sabotage
Any relationship she is in.
So, time together
Is only a matter
Of the time apart
To come.
It would seem so simple.
Get out of the relationship.
But I care about this woman
Too much to give up.
I think that I could
make a difference.
But it’s a glacial process.
I show up
And we talk
And we drink
And we smoke.
It’s amazing
What a few glasses of wine
Will reveal.
I listen to the things
That have gone wrong
And think
That I understand.
But we see each other
So infrequently.
And I don’t know
That I can influence
A relationship
In such tiny increments.