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Best Codependency Poems

Below are the all-time best Codependency poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of codependency poems written by PoetrySoup members


Codependency
I need you to need me,
So I can be happy.
I just want to help,
Let me love you,
Let me care for you.
Please, 
Don't hate me.
I just...

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Categories: codependency, anger, angst, hate, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Codependency
Her logic binds with golden ties and strands of silken thought
her elocution sparkles, it's a skill she has been taught.
Her lies are better than the...

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© Reed Hasty  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: codependency, dream, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Sing, Goddess
Sing, O Goddess, of my petulant wrath.
That which I’ve failed to address for so long.
Speak and guide my hand to express
The words of extremity needed...

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© Samuel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: codependency, art, beauty, blessing, for
Form: Classicism
Pure Devotion
I have always wondered if I can be loyal to a fault, 
Can pure devotion somehow bring a relationship to a halt?

I’ve noticed in my...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: codependency, emotions, joy, meaningful,
Form: Couplet
This Body
This Body
Those on the bottom can see but can’t act,
Those on the top can act, but can’t see,
O Lord, please free me from this body...

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Categories: codependency, black-african amerme, loss, sound,
Form: I do not know?



Co-Dependent Love
Looking out the window
The skies look gloomy
Feeling empty inside
Screaming out in silence 
Unhappy with this companion 
Felt like I bare you in this world
Your presence...

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Categories: codependency, addiction, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
A Drink To You
In light of good memory of how things were, a woman stands unguarded. 
Pleasantries, talents, and secretive skills.
 I offered to you a drink, allowing...

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Categories: codependency, angst, forgiveness, funny, drink,
Form: I do not know?
For Jim
I'm sad. 
I love you. 
Why are you angry?
Why do you think I'm so wrong?
I think you're wrong. 

Why?
I don't know. 
Is this working?
Dear god...

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Categories: codependency, anxiety, boyfriend, confusion, first
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Green Peace Resonance
At first we had traumatic stress
just being born
and later shock of near death,
physical and mental,
natural and spiritual,
lack of health 
and unsafe, messy wealth.

Then traumatic cultural...

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Categories: codependency, culture, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Feel Good Against Revolution
A difference between co-dependent feel-good rallies
and interdependent revolutions
is also the difference
between Negative LoseLose bipolarity
and Positive WinWin Energy,
dipolar co-arising.

CoDependency is a double-binding
tolerance of addictive mendacity
sharing common...

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Categories: codependency, anti bullying, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
Arms Length
I want to write to you the endless paragraphs I dream about sending you,
Then shut the door behind and never look back but what good...

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Categories: codependency, anger, anxiety, conflict, friendship,
Form: Free verse
I Don'T Feel Bad For You
I should feel bad for you,
But it’s hard to.
Because, you know what?
As if mine were the heart torn in two,
As if I was the one...

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Categories: codependency, abuse, addiction, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Trapped
Trapped

You see no one understands what it's like being trapped inside your own mind 
Left to try and self-medicate while loneliness and heartaches seep in...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: codependency, addiction, anger, angst, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Be Free
My heart was crying out
And blood has poured over
I've invested so much in us
And now I'm the wounded soldier
I am over it all and I'm...

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© Le Sain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: codependency, august, break up, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tied by Lies
You were to love us
Cherish and help us grow 
To have and to hold us
But all we have is anchor of lies
Floating among gloomy skies
It’s...

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Categories: codependency, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs