I want to create a moment of joy

Which words should I use?

When a friend is broken,
  I can't use the same old lines.

She has heard them all day long.

I can't stop the pain.

I can only be a friend.

Quiet support.

Selfish need is pushing me.

I no longer know whose pain,
   only I want it to stop.

Reviews

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:: very beautiful and heartfelt poetry... she's really lucky to have a friend like you... in times like these, all one wants is the quiet support of a true friend...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i love this piece...we want so badly to stop the pain of a friend or lover that eventually the pain becomes ours just as well...and then we aren't sure if we are trying to stop that person's pain, or our own...

nicely done and this poem has such deep sincerity.

[Jon Roggie]

I appreciate it. I just can't share this with the person I wrote it for. Not yet, it would be to soon.

[Corset]

I had to favorite this one :) just because of the way it leans.

[Jon Roggie]

Again, thank you.

[Renée]

hard place to be..but sometimes the best thing we can do is just give a hug..or sit beside.. grieving is something we just have to work though individually…can make one feel inadequate at times..

[Jon Roggie]

I agree. I enjoy the contact available these days, but sometimes.....

[Renée]

listening...