Helpless

Why aren't you happy? Why can't I help?

Your face. Sadness, pain. Emotions you will not share, yet share them you do.

A storm in your life. I could be the eye. You turn to salt. Harder it rains.

You long for love's sweet embrace, it makes you forget. You look at me. I'm crying inside.

I long for a place, where we are alone. A perfect world. No crying exists.

Helpless I look at your distraught face, your mind a maelstrom that I wish to calm. I reach out with my soul, knowing it's not enough. Torn apart by circumstance, by life, by an audience that is cruel and judgemental. I will wait. I will love.

You are not alone.