Response

What voice can I use to the scarred remains

Of a human being?

I have been there.

I understand.

I can relate.

I try on their shoes, but my feet

Are caloused by

Being here

Doing this

Gripping fear

With my pain,

Fiercely loyal to my pain, my friend

To my thoughts, my being.

Though I express

Empathy

Yet mold the thought:

It only applies to me.

But I listen, and wait.

In the end,

No words to say...


I'm sorry.