[70] should have

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You're hurt
and I should've helped you,
should've held you,
should've been there.

You're drowning,
suffering,
silently crying,
and I was too caught up
in myself to even
acknowledge you're there.

I wish you didn't have to,
I wish we could switch,
I wish I could take it from you.

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