Well Meaning

 

You can’t change 

someone else

You can only change 

yourself. 

 

If you change

How you behave

You change 

The relationship. 

 

The adults who speak

These words

Mean well. 

They mean them as 

Freedom. 

 

But it depends.  

 

If you’re a child

Whose father is ill

These words 

Take on a meaning

That makes you think

There is something 

You can do 

To make him better. 

 

And 

if 

you 

just

keep 

changing 

and 

changing

and

changing 

Yourself,

You will (have to eventually) find

The one way of being 

That will make him well,

That will make him stop

Making you cry.