If you have ever regretted "Dropping Guard," would this poem describe

Question: If you have ever regretted "Dropping Guard," would this poem describe how you felt!?

Dropping Guard

Plug's been pulled
air let out
life-line
carelessly cut!.

Curse the day
you allowed yourself
to depend
on another's strength!.

Knowing better
dropping guard
you reached
to outstretched hand!.

Strong crutch you
came to lean upon
walked away
abandoned again!.

Beware the empty
"know I'll be there"
"count on me"
lies you can't believe!.

Alone was a place
once left behind
you return
to find nothing's changed!.

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yes, i know that feeling all too well!. i can't believe i put so much trust in and came to depend on someone when i never let myself do that before!.
he not only let me fall, he walked me to a cliff and pushed me off!.

this was beautiful ma!. it has me crying!. (literally)
please tell me you're not going through what i am!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I let down my guard and then I get nailed with a left hook!. Happens every time, but still I feel compelled to let someone get close to my heart from time to time!. I seem to be the one to champion the underdogs, especially women, and they seem to be the ones who do the most damage when I don't expect it!. But still, I survive to let down my guard again for another!. I don't complain, I just shake it off and start the next round, for there is no limit to what we can do for and with the power of love!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I leave you a few stanzas from a larger piece I've written, my reflection to compliment your descriptive words!.

No, no, I'm happy for you,
the silence from me is not that I'm muted,
I've nothing to say because of promises made
that leave the meaning of words diluted!.

"Always, till the end of time, forever,
I'd never hurt you" said without meaning!.
Words now a token of my spirit that's broken,
here take my throat it's primed for choking!.

Left with only two possessions to hold,
grab them they're fading rapidly,
an eternally saved but dehydrated soul,
and a heart overflowing with apathy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I went down this road many years ago!.!.I found that the only person you could count on is yourself!.Alone is not a bad thing, there are many pluses!.I have become strong,capable of taking care of myself!.
Happy in my life!.Content to do my own thing!.Someone else can not make you happy!.Only one person can do that for you--it is YOU!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The plugs been pull
even though i am still breathing!.
I understand i have to depend on someone else!.
I lived for who knows why
Then they who you depended on
Left me alone to die again!.
We are born with loving understanding
But we die with no clue!.

Very Good Ma!. Its so sad but so true!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I ain't hidin' in no cages no more!. Ya go out in the streets, you're gonna get hurt!.

Ya hide in a cage ya ain't got a life!.

What's worse!?

Jeez!.!.!.the poem!. It's real literature!Www@QuestionHome@Com

been there, done that!. i've learned that in my 64 years, the only person i can depend on is me!.!.!.at least to my specifications, wants and needs!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I love this poem!!! I think as a mother of teenage daughters, I'd like to pass these words on to them!. To teach them, to count on themselves!. Great words Ma, thank you!Www@QuestionHome@Com

,,, it happened only once!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

To a Capital 'T'Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yeah, you hit the chord true, Ma! I have an extra t-shirt!. Want one!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Amen to that, poem hits it right on the head!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ma!.!.!.!.!.!?

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