Dark Times

I see you Sad and blue So lonely I feel your pain Everything is so complicated for you Nothing is straightforward or ever simple You’re lost in a maze of your own doing I desperately want to help chisel away All the excesses that weigh you down But it’s pointless You are the only one who can and must do it for yourself You’re getting caught up in the eye of a tornado I can only witness as you Desperately helplessly spiral out of control And it’s excruciatingly painful to watch AP: Honorable Mention 2020 Submitted on September 4, 2018 for CONTEST 490 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND and on September 6, 2017 for contest HURRICANES sponsored by JULIE LEIGH RODEHEAVER