I’ve seen it there in you
from times hazy, but
not forgotten,
and you have pleaded your case
to this court in my mind
so many times that I fear
it is dulled, but lately,
there is a sign of something
more, something greater
than yourself, that broods over
you and fills me with the
fear I once felt in the
early days before any resolution.

You want me to help you
take it away, but I don’t understand
it myself, for it is a force that
has chosen you and nobody
but you can stop its slicing hell.

Nobody but you, not me, not
those whose tears for you
have fallen many times.

Nobody but you,
as I hold your hand.

 

22/6/2024