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At the zenith I thought: 
I’ll buy a house for us.
The spiritual lift:
To solve all her problems, not mine.
The punch was then revealed:
Isolated in conformity-priority Amherst
increasingly angry special needs
no friends or family
a husband commuting vacantly.

Summary: 
to assist another
I realized much later
didn’t help 
even hurt her.

Who’s the fool 
doesn’t regret
the best intentioned self?