Taking Care
you’re hurting, again
frame and face contorted, just a little
gone quiet
- your usual lust for life
- and passion enough to kill god
- wiped from around your eyes
- it pains me, too, to see you like this
- to see you, to not know
- to not know, and to be helpless
- you’ve beat so much else
- you’ll beat this too
- i hope
- i feel so stuck, sometimes
- unable to do anything but take my care
- and blindly press it upon you
- praying that it sticks
- that it saves you
- frustrated, too
- at you
- for derailing my days
- for taking up my care
- at myself
- for not knowing, not helping
- for letting this happen to me, again
- for daring feel this negative when I’m not hurt
- at the world
- for letting this happen
- to someone so incredible
- i take solace
- not enough
- in knowing
- that this is what lovers do.
- i sit here, today
- crying
- feet away
- in complete silence
- not wanting to add my tiny strife
- to your pile
- listening to you cry, too
i just want to love someone who’s ok
- i just want this incredible woman i love
- to be ok
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