Quixote

Here I am

Still atop my painted pony

Riding in to save the damsel

Except there’s no distress

Like Don Quixote

I can’t see past my visions

To find the reality

That she’s fine without me

And that I need her

Far more than she needs me

Trying to validate

My unending self-sacrifice

And find happiness

In making others happy

Because that hole inside

Never seems to fill

Tilt at these windmills

With pointless devotion

To a cause that isn’t mine