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I Won't Try

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I won't try to make you happy,
because I know you've done the deal.

I won't try to cheer you up,
because I know the feelings you conceal.

I won't try to fix your words,
because I know that they are real.

I won't try to heal your wounds,
because I know they won't be healed.

I won't try to help you at all...

Because I know

how

you

feel.
© SpiderwebWisher 2013

A short poem I thought of when I read a comment on a deviantART poem about someone loosing another, and not knowing until it was already over. I was going to attempt to cheer the person up, but I stopped myself, because I knew it was beyond my power. I stopped, because I knew how that felt, and I knew, that I needed much more than a stranger's helping hand to heal my scars.

Dedicated to that commenter. You know who you are.
© 2013 - 2024 SpiderwebWisher
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Foxy-Knight's avatar
Yeah, that sense of identification and the calm sorrow that comes with knowing there is nothing you can do to help...I've been there my friend.