Long time friend,
How I love you,
How I want to save you.
I watch as you fight your battle
Against the body that attacks you;
I long to ease your pain.
Long time friend
I know you haven’t the energy
To clean up your things
Because your body hurts.
I ask if I can help
And am rejected.
I ask your other half
To help you
And I get excuses.
It’s so hard to watch
As the piles grow around you
Pushing you off your own bed.
How can you heal
When you can’t even
Sleep properly?
Long time friend
I know alcohol makes
Everything feel warm
And maybe even fuzzy.
But is it safe to drink
When your meds
Are so strong?
Can your body heal
While processing it?
Long time friend
I want nothing but
The very best for you.
And yet I feel as though
I am watching you
Slowly waste away.
There’s not a damn thing
I am able to do.
Both nature and you
Have tied my hands.
The knot so precise
And so tight
I am left with
Nothing but my prayers.
This is so broken, and raw, and authentic. It’s beautifully devastating, I’m sorry for your pain.
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Thank you. It was just one of those moments where I had to write my thoughts down before I drowned in them.
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So Amazing, Loving, And Most Of All With Compassion. I Know It Hurts That You Can’t Fix It. I’m So Sorry.
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Thank you for your kind words. It’s definitely a hard situation and I hate not being able to do anything about it. It’s like being benched on the sidelines.
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Oh Wow!! I Can Understand That.
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The pain of not being able to assist your true friend is devastating to say the least. You bring such hardness out with each worded verse. I am sorry you have to accept and understand the pain involved that attacks your senses.
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Thanks so much. I appreciate your words. It’s definitely hard to process.
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Yes, it is hard from your words Heather.
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