Helpless
What can I do?
I know you’re sad
I’m sad too
Watching your world fall to pieces
Crashing down on you
smothering you
suffocating you
Seeing the world through your eyes
How can I help?
I know you’re hurt
I’m hurt too
Watching you suffer
Watching you blame yourself
hurt yourself
Your pain
a constant weight
on my shoulders
on my heart
Your pain is my pain
With me always
I see it in your eyes sometimes
Through the veil you’ve created for yourself
Protecting your secrets
your sadness
your heart
Well hidden by the carefree mask
But behind all that
You are afraid
helpless
I’m here for you
I tell you everyday
I ask you not to
are you listening?
I know you’re trying
You don’t want to
I beg you not to
I make you promise
empty words
I don’t understand
How you could?
Why you would?
I can only imagine
Tell me how to help you
Can you?
I’m trying
I know you are too
Comforting words
hovering
on my tongue
Always the same
Feeble and weightless as they pass my lips
Knowing it’s useless
Knowing you won’t listen
can’t listen
I can’t save you
I have to try
I am helpless
