"Guilt"

Some things we can't learn;

If only to speak with ease

so all of a sudden in a time of need

our concern could have measure in words

I know your reception to them could albeit lead

  to something worse

but when there's never the right thing to say

the pain you feel is our mutual curse

because for this reversal of fortune

neither of us could rehearse.

Now only do I see 

how much easier it would have been 

if only the distances I should have traversed 

were more than halfway

to where you were. 

I don't know how walls get built

but what's tearing me down is you are standing against them

and the habits we've developed have led me to absolve myself 

of any guilt..

as if it could get any worse

but I know it could.